Elioflex Twin Lens Reflex camera.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1950 - 1953
Materials
Measurements
open 178 x 87 x 90 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524561
Summary
Elioflex Twin Lens Reflex camera by Ferrania. Metal folding hood incorporates fold-out expandable wire frame 'sports finder' for framing pictures, with camera model inscribed on metal panel below sports finder. The camera has a metal body, covered on sides and front with black leatherette. Large, non-focusing brilliant finder. Galileo 'monog' 85mm lens. Metal press clasp opens back for loading film, with metal film winder on rhs. Light exposure time panel on back with covered film exposure mechanism below.
Provenance
Part of The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986.