Erac pistol camera, c 1938
- PART OF:
- The Kodak Museum Collection
Erac pistol camera. Plastic bodied camera with pistol grip for 20mm wide rollfilm. Manufactured by E.R.A.C. Selling Co. Ltd. 61 St. Paul's churchyard, London, EC4. Plastic bodied camera for pistol grip for 20mm wide rollfilm, 18 x 18mm pictures. Simple lens, fixed focus and aperture, instantaneous shutter, actuated by trigger, ratchet mechanism winds on film when trigger is released. No viewfinder. Patent No 379501 (covill and steward, southend 18.8.1931)
Details
- Category:
- Photographic Technology
- Collection:
- Kodak Collection
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/1178
- Materials:
- plastic (unidentified), metal (unknown) and glass
- Measurements:
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overall: 40 mm x 90 mm x 100 mm,
- type:
- pistol camera
- credit:
- The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
