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Coronet Popular twelve |
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Photos by Sylvain Halgand text by Sylvain Halgand. From the collection of TL. Last update 2018-05-04 par Sylvain Halgand.
Manufactured or assembled in United Kingdom from (Circa) 1952 to 0.
Index of rarity in France: Rare (among non-specialized garage sales)
Inventory number: 10723
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Chronology of cameras Coronet
Traduction de Ian Seymour,
It is difficult to categorise the Popular Twelve, a simple box camera which aspires to be a twin lens reflex.
The use of Bakelite allowed the designers' imagination to run wild, resulting in a most singular camera in which complex form takes no account of function.
The shutter release is located at an inconvenient and uncomfortable position, there is only one speed (plus T for time exposure ) and the lens has fixed focus. But at least the reflex finder permits fairly accurate framing
