Pic
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The Pic is an oddly styled camera for sixteen 3x4-cm exposures on 127 film. It was made in about 1950, by Pressure Sealed Plastics Ltd of Southend-on-Sea, England.[1][2]
The body of the camera is cast in black bakelite or similar resin plastic. It is an odd disc, approximately 95mm in diameter, and 45mm thick,[2] and slightly convex on front and back. The film path occupies only the central square of this disc. The camera has a simple meniscus lens, with fixed focus and no aperture adjustment, and a simple shutter, with separate release levers for T and I shutter, and an off-white plastic thumb-wheel for film advance on the front. There are two red windows in the back. There is a tubular viewfinder set in the top of the disc. Inside, a simple wire spring-clip serves in place of a pressure plate.[3]
The Pic is the only camera that Pressure Sealed Plastics is known to have made. PSP was renamed Speed Plastics, then Flexus Plastics, and was finally bought by Robinson Group, which made packaging, medical plastic products, water-beds and disposable nappies.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Pic at Great British Cameras (archived)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Listing in the Science Museum collection at Bradford.
- ↑ Example offered for sale as eBay item 333591580150, May 2020.
- ↑ Robinson Group entry from the Derbyshire Record Office, at the UK National Archives.
