Dover

image by Philip Krayna (Image rights)

The Dover Film Company was a film and camera maker based in Dover, New Hampshire, U.S.A. Following World War II the company began selling medium format film under their own name. Later the company added 35mm films to its offerings. It is not clear whether any film was manufactured directly by them or was simply repackaged war surplus film.

On some packaging the Dover name is stylized as "DOVER".

Sometime in the late 1940s the Dover Film Company acquired the manufacturing molds for the Speed-O-Matic camera, after it had failed to gain any market share during the short time it was in production. Dover reconfigured the camera to function as a standard 620 camera, shooting 16 frames of standard 4.5x6 cm size.

The camera is named the 620-A and includes an integrated flash unit with removable reflector, and built-in yellow and close-up filters that can slide into place over the lens.

Links

• Dover 620 Manual at Butkus.org
• Dover 620-A Camera at Marcy Merrill's Junk Store Cameras

Dover 620-A Camera (on right) Camera on left is a Speed-O-Matic image by Jacques Bratieres (Image rights)