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prototype camera body

prototype camera body

Date1968-1975
Inventory Number2004-1-0035
ClassificationCamera
Subject
    Maker George Edward Vanderpool 1926 - 2015
    Maker Polaroid Corporation 1937-present
    Owner Edwin H. Land 1909 - 1991
    Cultural Region
      Place of Origin
        Dimensions16.8 × 10.3 × 9.2 cm (6 5/8 × 4 1/16 × 3 5/8 in.)
        Material
          DescriptionThis is a prototype camera body for a Polaroid instant camera (perhaps a non-folding SX-70 model). The model camera body is made primarily of wood painted black. The camera is partially covered in panels of black imitation (?) leather. A circular piece of glass mounted in a model ring represents the camera lens on the face of the camera, and to the right of the lens is a slightly smaller circular glass piece representing either an electric eye or the viewfinder lens. Left of the camera "lens" is a metal "LAND CAMERA" plaque, and centered beneath the lens over the film compartment is a light blue colored "POLAROID" plaque. A slit along the top edge of the camera above the primary camera lens represents the socket for the flash bar attachment.
          In Collection(s)
          Signedon front: POLAROID on front: LAND / CAMERA
          prototype Polaroid camera body
          prototype Polaroid camera body
          Polaroid Corporation
          Date: 1963-1975
          Object number: 2004-1-0033
          prototype Polaroid camera body
          prototype Polaroid camera body
          Polaroid Corporation
          Date: 1965-1975
          Object number: 2004-1-0032
          prototype Polaroid camera body
          prototype Polaroid camera body
          George Edward Vanderpool
          Date: 1968-1978
          Object number: 2004-1-0031
          experimental model Land Camera SX-70 Model 3
          experimental model Land Camera SX-70 Model 3
          Polaroid Corporation
          Date: 1972-1980
          Object number: 2004-1-0046
          experimental camera based on SX-70 model
          experimental camera based on SX-70 model
          Polaroid Corporation
          Date: 1972-1980
          Object number: 2004-1-0043
          experimental Land camera SX-70 Time Zero Autofocus Model 2
          experimental Land camera SX-70 Time Zero Autofocus Model 2
          Polaroid Corporation
          Date: 1972-1980
          Object number: 2004-1-0047
          experimental camera model SX-70
          experimental camera model SX-70
          Polaroid Corporation
          Date: 1972-1976
          Object number: 2004-1-0045
          experimental Land camera SX-70 Time Zero autofocus Model 2
          experimental Land camera SX-70 Time Zero autofocus Model 2
          Polaroid Corporation
          Date: 1974-1980
          Object number: 2004-1-0049
          experimental Land camera SX-70 Model 2
          experimental Land camera SX-70 Model 2
          Polaroid Corporation
          Date: 1970-1982
          Object number: 2004-1-0048
          experimental camera model SX-70
          experimental camera model SX-70
          Polaroid Corporation
          Date: 1974
          Object number: 2004-1-0044
          prototype Land camera
          prototype Land camera
          Polaroid Corporation
          Object number: 2004-1-0041
          prototype Polaroid SX-70 camera body
          prototype Polaroid SX-70 camera body
          Polaroid Corporation
          Date: 1960-1975
          Object number: 2004-1-0034