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United States Cameras: Vagabond 120 Everyready Flash
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1951. 120 film, 2¼×3¼'' exposures, box-type, viewfinder camera.
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Condition | Price | |||
2003-02-28 | $16 | |||
2002-01-01 | <$17 | |||
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The Vagabond 120 Eveready Flash is a simple box camera for 6x9cm images from 120 film, made by USC (United States Cameras) in Chicago in 1951. An identical camera branded Life Time 120 from "Life Time Mfg. Co. Inc., Chicago, Ill." also exists and was produced from 1948 and into the 1950s. One more version appears to be named Time Traveler 120 by the Pho-Tak Corporation; however, it is misnamed because "time" actually labels the instant/time pull out selector tab behind it so it is really just the Traveler 120. Some of the Traveler 120s had a top mount instant/time switch and this is still called the Time Traveler 120 with no time in the name. On all the camera examples with flash sync (some labeled "Synchro Flash" around the lens), the selector for Instant or Time is located at the top of the lens board like the Vagabond 120. They are all just a point-and-shoot camera in the most literal sense. They have one shutter speed, one aperture, and a single lens. All three cameras have a shutter speed 1/50th of a second, use 120 films, and have a 110mm f5.6 Zellar lens. The cameras were meant to use ASA 100 film in daylight conditions outdoors and indoors with a flash connected. Some of the Vagabond 120s and the Traveler 120s had the flash contacts on the side of the shutter assembly while others of the brands had them on the top. The United States Cameras Corporation and Life Time Manufacturing Company were based in 17 North Loomis Street, Chicago 7, Illinois (U.S.A.). They were apparently an alternate name of the Pho-Tak Corporation, at the same address. The Pho-Tak business plan was to be its own competition.
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