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July 26, 2026

Candid Camera Fifty Five

Candid Camera Perfex Fifty Five Candid Camera family list Perfex Speed Perfex Forty-Four

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July 26, 2026

Candid Camera Forty Four

Candid Camera Perfex Forty-Four Candid Camera family list Perfex Speed Perfex Fifty-Five Camdex list number 12115 Brand Camera Corp Model Perfex Forty-Four Manual Butkus Value Perfex Forty-Four Format 35mm Introduced 1939 AKA Country USA Qty made Initial price 38 Currency USD Type Rangefinder Body material Metal Mode Manual Weight gr, Class average weight gr, ASA range N/A Kit lens...

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July 25, 2026

Candid Camera Perfex Speed

Candid Camera Perfex Speed Candid Camera family list Perfex Forty Four Perfex Fifty Five I’m holding the Perfex Speed, and I’m not sure where to begin. At first glance, it seems assembled from unrelated parts, and it remotely resembles the concept of a camera as we know it. Indeed, it has a lens, a viewer, and a superstructure styled after a...

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July 10, 2026

Candid Camera Corporation

Candid Camera Corporation Candid Camera Perfex Speed

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June 24, 2026

Foth Derby camera

Foth Derby camera C.F. Foth of Gdansk/Danzig and later Berlin and Paris was a short-lived camera maker that offered a line of three camera series for a little over a decade. Most of Foth’s camera models did not gain prominence in camera history; the one model still seen is the Derby, which seems to have been its bestseller. There are...

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June 23, 2026

Foth camera family list

Foth camera family list Foth Derby page A few weeks ago, I finished the Gallus page, where the next camera should have been Foth, Gallus’s forefather. I pulled it off the shelf and set it on my desk. Nonetheless, I was distracted by other French models, so the little Foth became a fixture next to my mouse pad. Today I...

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June 21, 2026

Bauchet Mosquito

Bauchet Mosquito Camera Bauchet was established early in the last century as a manufacturer of photographic chemicals and papers, as well as basic consumer electronics; both disciplines were fresh and up for grabs. They had achieved good standing against mainstays such as Kodak, AGFA, Gevaert, and Ilford. During the occupation, the company’s production was seconded to Perutz of Germany, and...

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June 8, 2026

Tougodo Meisupii

Tougodo Meisupii I wrote about Tougodo in two previous articles: one on the entire family and another on the Toyoca 35 S and Strato 35 models. The camera on my bench now is an early Meisupii, dated to before the war, to 1937. A word about the Tougodo naming convention: model names could be grouped into three categories. Japanese-sounding names:...

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May 26, 2026

Tougodo Toyoca 35S / Strato 35

Toyoca 35S / Strato 35 Tougodo was a prolific camera maker that began as early as 1930 and lasted till the mid-1970s. On the face of it, they made about 200 camera models, but this figure should be heavily discounted, as most models were duplicates. A list of the Tougodo models is on the dedicated page. In comparison, the camera...

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May 22, 2026

Tougodo camera family list

Tougodo camera family list More on Toyoca cameras More on Meisupii cameras The Tougodo company was established in Japan in 1930 as a maker of Yen cameras. During the war, production shifted to military devices. After the war, the company continued in the camera trade, producing an impressive array of Hit as well as TLR models, some styled after the...

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