Fairchild Aircraft Camera Type K-20
616
Hammer Price
€625
incl. Buyer's Premium
Estimate
Manufacture Year : c.1942
compact reconnaissance camera for images in 4x5” format on a film roll, in very nice overall condition, closed aluminium body, IIex Paragon f4.5/163, olive green transport case, unopened toll of film in a sealed tin, red and yellow filters, not checked for function. The camera has a special suction plate which holds the film flat during exposure. The same model was used by Margarete Bourke-White for her war reports for Life magazine.