Coronet Standard Cub Flash camera
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1950 - 1955
Materials
Plastic, Metal, Glass
Measurements
80 x 125 x 60 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524934.1
Summary
Coronet Standard Cub Flash camera The camera body is made of plastic with metal top and bottom plates and lens mount. The front of the camera is made of black plastic. It has a viewfinder in the metal top plate and a round metal lens mount is attached to the centre with four screws. This contains the lens, above which is a lever control marked I and T. There is an arrow pointing down to the word filter. If the lens mount is rotated as per the arrow the lens can be retracted into the body. Below the lens is a plastic mount to take the three pin flash cable. Around the lens it reads” Coronet Cub Flash Made in England” The top of the camera has the knob to wind on the film and a shoe for the flash attachment. The left and right sides have mounting points for a strap. The bottom of the camera has a tripod mount and a lever marked open and locked for releasing the back of the film compartment. The back of the camera and the base plate drop away when the lever is moved to open and the back of the camera has a red plastic aperture to view the frame number. There is a knob beside to slide a cover plate across inside. Inside the back plate is embossed “The Coronet Camera Co Birmingham Design Registered”
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