The ‘Boots’ branded Bell & Howell Compact 2000 is a Japanese made consumer Super 8 camera made in the early 1970s.
Despite being very basic in its design, the camera is certainly capable of delivering some fine images.
Ours has gone to ‘Ye Olde Camera Shoppe in the sky’ having succumbed to old age but we gave it a good send-off.
The Bolex Paillard 150 is a Super 8 format film camera.
This model was manufactured in 1967 and continues to operate flawlessly, delivering consistent results more than 50 years on.
It’s quite weighty for its size and feels incredibly robust whilst having the appearance of a primitive speed gun.
The Krasnogorsk-3 (with “Ultra 16mm” modification).
This Russian-made amateur film camera was manufactured in 1988 but the overall production run spanned more than two decades between 1971 – 1993.
It’s incredibly bulky and heavy but with it comes great reliability – it’s a wonderfully versatile 16mm camera.
“One of the best things ever made in the USSR, the Krasnogorsk-3 motion picture camera! Built as rugged as a T-72 Tank and as precise as the MIR space station”
K3 Owner’s Manual
This camera’s claim to fame is a somewhat macabre one – it’s the model of camera that captured the infamous “Zapruder Film” of U.S. President, John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
It’s a Double 8 format camera that exposes film contained within a magazine that can be flipped akin to an audio cassette therefore creating two image sequences on the same reel of film; extending the potential run-time.
After the film is developed, the 16mm film is split down the middle for the entirety of it’s length and spliced end to end – turning a 25ft strip of film into 50ft of 8mm.
Don’t be fooled by this camera’s compact design – it’s weight is colossal in relation to it’s appearance.
The Kodak Brownie Model I is not a cine camera but rather a basic stills photography ‘Box’ camera manufactured in England during the 1950s.
Equipped with a single speed rotary shutter, a slow lens (f/14) and two viewfinders for portrait and landscape applications – this was the low budget, highly portable solution for amateur photography.
Fenland on Film 