Details
NORMANDIE MODEL K, CIRCA 1944
Vinten Ltd., London; 35mm., spring-wound motor, green painted body, with 80-ft film capacity, leather carrying handle, viewfinder, mechanism with a single aluminium 24-tooth sprocket with two double roller sprocket guards, single arm claw movement, mechanism plate stamped no. 178, reciprocating arm moving pressure plate with each frame, co-axial film arrangement, roller set at angle to feed film from rear of chamber to front chamber, pulley wheel behind sprocket drives by sprung metal belt, pulley wheel on take up, back of camera with metal plate stamped VINTEN MODEL'K' CAMERA BODY REF NO. MK1 SERIAL NO. 178, with a 3-lens turret-mount holding a Dallmeyer, London 6in. f/4.5 telephoto lens no. 424537 with tube engraved 178 and '15- INF, a Taylor-Hobson Cooke Panfo Anastigmat 2in. 50mm. f/2.8 lens no. 287649 with tube engraved TAYLOR-HOBSON PANFO Regd. Brit and US Patt Off '2 - INF, and a Taylor-Hobson Cooke Speed Panchro 345mm. f/2 lens no. 287017 with tube engraved TAYLOR-HOBSON '3 - INF
Vinten Ltd., London; 35mm., spring-wound motor, green painted body, with 80-ft film capacity, leather carrying handle, viewfinder, mechanism with a single aluminium 24-tooth sprocket with two double roller sprocket guards, single arm claw movement, mechanism plate stamped no. 178, reciprocating arm moving pressure plate with each frame, co-axial film arrangement, roller set at angle to feed film from rear of chamber to front chamber, pulley wheel behind sprocket drives by sprung metal belt, pulley wheel on take up, back of camera with metal plate stamped VINTEN MODEL'K' CAMERA BODY REF NO. MK1 SERIAL NO. 178, with a 3-lens turret-mount holding a Dallmeyer, London 6in. f/4.5 telephoto lens no. 424537 with tube engraved 178 and '15- INF, a Taylor-Hobson Cooke Panfo Anastigmat 2in. 50mm. f/2.8 lens no. 287649 with tube engraved TAYLOR-HOBSON PANFO Regd. Brit and US Patt Off '2 - INF, and a Taylor-Hobson Cooke Speed Panchro 345mm. f/2 lens no. 287017 with tube engraved TAYLOR-HOBSON '3 - INF
Literature
Peter Ariel (1989), Ariel Cinematographica Register, Band 2, no. 428.
Special notice
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