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The Vivitar LF is a 110 format camera marketed by Vivitar in the 1970s. The camera has a built-in flash powered by two AA batteries. The camera is fixed focus and has a mechanical leaf-type shutter. The Vivitar LF is similar to the Vivitar LF tele but lacks the selectable telephoto lens.
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The Kodak K-24 is an electrically controlled aerial reconnaissance camera that used special rollfilm. It has a Kodak Aero Ektar f/2.5 7in 178mm 5×5 lens (see Kodak lenses). It was made for the U.S. Army’s Airforces.
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The Williamson L-type aerial camera is a 4×5-inch plate camera made for the Royal Flying Corps (predecessor of the Royal Air Force) during the First World War. It was patented by Major Frederic Laws of the RFC,[1]
and made by the Williamson Kinematograph Company of Denmark Street, London.[2] The wording of Laws’ patent suggests that this was a development of cameras already in use by the RFC.[1]
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The Voigtländer Vito II was introduced in 1949 as successor of Voigtländer‘s prewar model Vito, a folding camera for 35mm film. Unlike the earlier model, it could only take modern type No. 135 film, and not alternately 35mm film on simple rolls. Its film transport was optimized for the modern film capsules. The camera got a new lens which was calculated for colour photography, Voigtländer’s Color-Skopar 1:3.5/50mm
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“CLA” is a bit of jargon frequently seen in discussions of vintage cameras. It is an abbreviation for “clean, lube, and adjust.”
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The Ansco Rediflex is a fixed-focus pseudo-TLR taking 6cm square images on 620 film.[1] The body and wind knob are of moulded black plastic; the front panel and viewfinder hood of stamped metal.
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The Canon PowerShot A80 is a compact digital camera released by Canon in 2003.
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There is also the folding-bed plate camera, the Pocket Poco, by the same maker.
