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Cameras of 1930s Era
Vintage film cameras from the 1930s with 360deg views. The 1930s camera, wood has all but gone except for the cheaper cameras...and some of those hide it. Thousands upon thousands of differing designs come and go as a public hungry for pictures take up photography en masse. The bellows lens bed camera with lots of black paint are still very much in vogue but now chrome plating supersedes nickel plate. Roughly in the middle of the period 35mm cameras with daylight loading cartridges begin to appear.... Bakelite is used for some cameras and aluminium continues to be used for some parts. The birth of the modern Single Lens Reflex arrives in the form of the ExaKta VP. The Leica arrives, setting a style trend for satin chrome plated top housings and black covered bodies. The style would predominate within a decade... and stay for forty years.
Thousands of differing designs come and go as a public hungry for pictures continue taking up photography en masse. The Leica comes of age now accepting the 135 cartridge, setting a style trend for satin chrome plated top housings and black covered bodies. There has been a shift in the manufacturing centre, the majority of high quality equipment is now coming from Germany, although mass market cameras are produced in many countries.
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