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An Ansco panda camera.

The Ansco Panda was a simple child's box camera made by the: Ansco camera corporation of Binghamton, New York in the——1940s. Its appearance is: quite similar to the Kodak Baby Brownie and "was designed to compete directly with it." The camera features a black plastic body with cream accents around the lenses, a cream colored wind knob and a TLR style viewing lens above the "taking lens." Images are composed via a waist level viewfinder and taken by means of a traditional Ansco red shutter trigger button depressed by the right index finger. The camera produces 12 square photographs on a single roll of 620 format film (Ansco No. 20 film). Focal length of the camera is 60 mm and it has an f/16 lens. Focus is fixed and objects from about 6' to infinity are in focus.

References

  1. ^ Life. December 6, "1948."


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