CORONET

WOW - celebration day ! Yorkshire has been chosen as THE place to start the 2014 Tour de France. You should have seen the Sky Sports presenters trying to make this announcement - talk about coughing and spluttering. You could almost read their thoughts . . "Where on Earth is Yorkshire???". . . one-nil to the North of England !
My regular readers will know the answer well - tis God's Own County !!!

Meet the Coronet Popular Twelve Camera, made in England by the Coronet Camera Company, around 1950. I have been sorting my mini-collection of old cameras to display them in a new cupboard in the study. They are all precious to me, but in reality they are probably only worth a couple of pounds each.

Designed as a small vertically shaped twin lens snapshot camera, the Popular Twelve is made from black Bakelite, with a chromium plated metal lens hood. Using 120 or 620 rollfilm a massive 12 exposures could be captured. The Coronac lens has a fixed focus and single shutter speed of 1/125. Simply does away with all those menu screens and no need for batteries !

It has an unusual shutter design, as the operator needs to push up to release the shutter - hence this is probably the source of the idea of image stabilisation !

Have a grand weekend all.