Uniflex I

HISTORY:

This was my fathers camera, given to him by my grandfather as a 6th grade graduation present, in 1955. My father used it for about 6 years the shutter began to fail, and he stepped up to a Minolta. My grandfather, an optimist and educated man, decided that he could lubricate the shutter to fix the problem. After they picked it up from the repair shop, the shutter is limited to 1/100th of a second.

My father loaned it to me when I was young, and I hauled it all over the western United States. It is a pretty cool little camera, and I have used it to take quire a few of my earlier pictures.

SPECIFICATIONS:

This aluminum bodied camera was built between 1947 and 1950, by the Universal Camera Corporation, USA It originally retailed for $48.00

It features a three element shutter, and gathers light through a75 mm F5.6 lens with a field of view of 56 degrees. Exposures can range from 1/200th of a second to 1/25th, but BULB allows longer exposures of coarse.