A GOOD DIGITAL CAMERA

Custom-made housing, aerial camera style (?1930s)

DESCRIPTION: The unit is comprised of a wooden body, covered with leather (with ornamental lines), lens cone seemingly made from a screw-top jam tin. This alows to remove the lens cone while a camera is mounted in the unit.

The front of the unit is hinged and fastened by two sliders (Patent 434924). The inside of the body is lined with felt. The bottom sticks out to the back with a reinforced hole (for tripod screw) in the bottom. In addition, there is a cut out on the right hand side to give access to the camera.

A flip-up wire frame finder has been mounted on the top.

DIMENSIONS:
Body: 6 inches wide, 3 inches deep (bottom 5.5"), 4 3/4 inches high.
Handles:padding is 3 1/2 inches high, 1 inches wide, clerance of handle 1 inch
Wire frame: 3 3/4 x 2 inches
Lens cone: 4 inches long, diameter 3 inches at opening.
(The above metrics are given in Imperial mesurements after a check showed that Imperial values come out even).

BUILT-QUALITY: The use of the jam tin aside, the build quality is very high, with great attention to detail. On all sides, including the bottom, the leather has been ornamented with ruled lines.

USE: At present unknown which camera would have fit in there.

DATING: Patent n? 434924 is a British patent for a sliding lock granted in Sptember 1935.

© Dirk HR Spennemann 2010, All Rights Reserved

Balda-Werk - Dresden, Germany
©1931
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