Mystery Camera #11

[Down Under]

Small 6x7? What insanity is that??

She looks like Jacqueline Kennedy (as so many young women did back then) and I love her watch. As for the ciggies, well, almost all women smoked back then. As for the camera, well - who knows??

One of the many connundrums (on "cunnundra" to the pedandic) of this day and age.

Exakca is most probably is.

I am after all, old enough to know. Respect your elders, when we are gone you will have nothing left. Samsung digitals? On this last comment, I rest my case.

 

[AgX]

Small 6x7? What insanity is that??

Well, we had it about quite some resemblence of the prism part of the Pentax 6x7 with the camera in question. Thus my idea was to look for a 35mm Pentax SLR with such resemblence. (The Pentax ones I had on mind were different.) Ian beat me on this. Nothing insane involved.

Concerning the Exakta(s), I do not see even a single detail match.

 

[Ian Grant]

The Pentax AP was sold badged as a Tower 26, a give away that it's an early Pentas is the silver mirror box, as well as silver cocking ring of the Auto Takumarm and the sliver aperture ring.

It's very definitely a Pentax maybe rebadged as a Tower, but we know the date the photo was taken 1958, so AP, K, or S model is the mist likely.

Ian

 

[choiliefan]

Mystery solved with aplomb.

 

[Kino]

On a lot of earlier movie sets, the nameplate is removed or painted over to avoid using a trademarked name in a commercial film.

 

[AgX]

But when did that start?