R. F. Hunter
(Redirected from Hunter)
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| Gilbert image by John-Henry Collinson (Image rights) |
R.F. Hunter Ltd. were an importing and distribution company based at 51 Gray's Inn Road, and previously at 40 Doughty St. in Central London, England - who included various cameras, cine films and slide strips in their products. They seemed to specialise in quite odd-ball cameras, such as the gravity-control shuttered Purma and the stainless-steel fronted Gilbert box camera with rotating viewfinder.
In the early 1930s, Hunter's distributed Celfix cine projectors and cameras and Hunter-rebadged Bingoscope cine projectors, and supplied films and film strips for these.
Hunter's also supplied Franka cameras and Rolleiflexes in the 1950s-60s.
Cameras & Lenses supplied
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| Schneider lens ad by R.F. Hunter from British Journal Photographic Almanac 1932 image by Dirk HR Spennemann (Image rights) |
- Celfix cine
- Ebner[1]
- Franka
- Gilbert box, c.1953[2]
- Gugo viewfinder camera (made by Goldammer, c.1953)[3]
- Hunter 35 (a rebadged Steinette, made by Steiner, c.1957)
- Hunter 35 R (a Hunter 35 with a rangefinder)
- Hunter cine (Bingoscope)
- Purma Speed, Purma Special, Purma Plus
- Rolleiflex
- Rolloroy (a rebadged Nagel Pupille, 1930)
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Notes
Links
- Gilbert on Marriottworld (archived)
- Gilbert on The Old Album
- Hunter's Rollei catalogue, 1961
- on HistoryWorld.com
- Cameras at www.collection-appareils.fr (in French)
