Mystery Camera #11

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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.
 
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ozmoose said:
Small 6x7? What insanity is that??
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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.
 

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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
 

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