Nelrod Liteflash camera. Press camera with built-in electronic flash head (seperate power pack missing); Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar lens F:135 f/4.7 Serial No 2624976. Synchro-Compur shutter; 1-1/500 sec. Coupled longbase coincidence rangefinder. Frame finder; sockets for Liteflash triggers and flashbulbs. Flash unit fitted with Mullard LSD3 flashbulb. In fitted case with 34 single metal darkslides.

Nelrod Liteflash camera made by G H Williamson (Sales) Limited, England, 1950.

Press camera with built-in electronic flash head (seperate power pack missing); Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar lens F:135 f/4.7 Serial No 2624976. Synchro-Compur shutter; 1-1/500 sec. Coupled longbase coincidence rangefinder. Frame finder; sockets for Liteflash triggers and flashbulbs. Flash unit fitted with Mullard LSD3 flashbulb. In fitted case with 34 single metal darkslides.

The Nelrod Liteflash was launched by G H Williamson, and marketed by Dawe Instruments. In 1950 the British Journal Photographic Almanac stated that the camera had been ‘designed by a press photographer for a press photographer, and it certainly incorporates a surprising number of special features that must gladden the heart of any number of that brotherhood'.

The Nelrod is a rigid press camera for plates or filmpack with a built-in electronic flash unit, the camera is typical of the sort used by press photographers of the period.