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Very rare Speed-O-Matic Camera with Developing Tank, Box, Instruction Manual and ads. Shutter does not open but a very nice display piece for your camera collection.
The Speed-O-Matic Corporation was a camera maker based in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. In late 1947[1] it produced the Speed-O-Matic bakelite "instant" camera using direct-positive film packs. The camera had an extinction meter on its top, and different aperture stops could be selected.
The camera used double-sided film packs, so after one exposure the pack had to be removed and flipped, then re-loaded. Then the two exposed film sheets had to be transferred into a separate development tank. Processing required four different chemical solutions to be filled into the tank, then emptied back into storage bottles again—with water rinses between each step. Not unlike a pseudo TLR, perhaps this camera would be best classified as a "pseudo instant camera". The much simpler peel-apart system from Polaroid, introduced in 1948, turned the Speed-O-Matic into a forgotten curiosity.
For sale on Ebay - starting bid of $45.00
Very rare Speed-O-Matic Camera with Developing Tank, Box, Instruction Manual and ads. Shutter does not open but a very nice display piece for your camera collection.
The Speed-O-Matic Corporation was a camera maker based in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. In late 1947[1] it produced the Speed-O-Matic bakelite "instant" camera using direct-positive film packs. The camera had an extinction meter on its top, and different aperture stops could be selected.
The camera used double-sided film packs, so after one exposure the pack had to be removed and flipped, then re-loaded. Then the two exposed film sheets had to be transferred into a separate development tank. Processing required four different chemical solutions to be filled into the tank, then emptied back into storage bottles again—with water rinses between each step. Not unlike a pseudo TLR, perhaps this camera would be best classified as a "pseudo instant camera". The much simpler peel-apart system from Polaroid, introduced in 1948, turned the Speed-O-Matic into a forgotten curiosity.
For sale on Ebay - starting bid of $45.00