Item is a Polaroid Land Camera Super Colorpack instant film camera. Similar to the Polaroid Super Shooter, the Super Colorpack has a rigid plastic body and a manual finder on the lens and uses peel-apart Land Pack Films.

Illustration of young couple using a camera, with illustrations of 4 other cameras being advertised. Text contains consumer information.

Illustration of young couple using a camera, with illustrations of 4 other cameras being advertised. Text contains consumer information.

Item is an illustrated colour brochure for Kodak Instamatic movie cameras and Super 8 cartridges.

Four tightly cropped images of individual men and women using the four cameras being advertised. Text contains consumer information.

Item is a subminiature camera for 14 x 21 mm exposures on 35 mm film in special cartridges. The camera is a side-by-side twin-lens reflex camera with one lens reflecting upward to the ground glass for viewing and the other lens, a Tessinon f2.8/25 mm, reflects the image down to the film which travels across the bottom of the camera. The shutter speed is 2-500 and the camera has a spring-motor advance for 5-8 frames per winding.

Item is an illustrated catalogue of Eastman Kodak's motion picture cameras and projectors.

Item is an illustrated catalogue of Eastman Kodak's motion picture cameras and projectors.

Item is a folding camera with maroon bellows, wooden interior, and black leather covering with metal handle.

Item is a black leather-covered wooden folding 5" x 4", or quarter plate, camera. The camera has red leather, diagonal cornered bellows, Bausch and Lomb Automat shutter, and BECK 7" Convertible Double Aplanat lens. The ring-shaped clamp dates the model to 1907.

Four photographs of adults running through the surf, skiing, walking along the street, and a baby petting a cat, and one photograph showing 4 cameras being advertised. Text contains consumer information.

Color photograph of young boy sitting on a bench and playing with a toy, and black and white photograph of cameras being advertised. Text contains consumer information - describes use of cameras being advertised.

Large photograph of Ciné-Kodak "E" camera and four smaller close-ups of parts of the camera. Text contains consumer information - describes the camera advertised.

Large photograph of crowd waving up to people on deck of a large cruise ship, with streamers flying throug the air, and smaller photograph of two cameras advertised. Text contains consumer information - describes use of cameras advertised for capturing vacation memories.

Four tightly cropped images of individual men and women using the four cameras being advertised. Text contains consumer information.

Four tightly cropped images of individual men and women using the four cameras being advertised. Text contains consumer information.

Four tightly cropped images of individual men and women using the four cameras being advertised. Text contains consumer information.

Four tightly cropped images of individual men and women using the four cameras being advertised. Text contains consumer information.

Two photographs of young couple, smiling and taking a photograph of people on a sailboat, and a photograph of the camera being advertised. Text contains consumer information.

Two photographs of a couple reading together and playing in the water with another person, and a photograph of the camera being advertised. Text contains consumer information.

Two photographs of young couple, smiling and taking a photograph of people on a sailboat, and a photograph of the camera being advertised. Text contains consumer information.

Illustration of store display of "Christmas assortment" of Kodak cameras, including Baby Brownies, Brownie Juniors, Bullet and Jiffy cameras. Text contains merchandising and pricing information.

Items in this series are arranged by Camera model

Item is the first Mercury model camera created by the Universal Camera Corp. It takes 18 x 24 mm vertical exposures on Universal No. 200 film, a special 35 mm wide film. The camera has a Wollensak Tricor Anastigmat f3.5/35mm and a rotating focal-plane 1/20-1/1000 shutter.

Item is a die-cast metal cine camera with a black finish. It has an interchangeable f5.6 Ilex Univar lens and a collapsible viewfinder. The camcorder uses Univex 30' patented spools of Single-8 film.

Item is a subminiature vext-pocket folding camera for No. 00 rollfilm with an oxidized silver front plate and a Duo Achromatic lens. It originally sold for $1.95 which was less than it's predecessor's, the Univex Model AF-3, price of $2.50.

Item consists of a sheet film wooden box camera with brown leather covering, for 4.5" x 3.5" exposures on sheet film. Manufacturer unknown. Includes 2 wooden film holders.

Item is a spiral-bound illustrated instruction manual for the Kodak digital camera 40.

Item consists of a colour landscape format, board poster, featuring an image of a Kodak Ektabound 140 lying on a table beside a book, a stopwatch, a framed portrait of a woman, a Kodak projector, and other various Kodak devices.

Item is a folding camera that uses trellis struts and no bed. Similar to the Vest Pocket Kodak but has an Autographic feature. The Kodak Ball Bearing Shutter offers settings for Clouds, Marine View, Distant View, Average View, and Portrait.

Item is a Vest Pocket Autographic made for use with 127 film. It is a small camera with black casing and black leather bellows. A continuation of the Vest Pocket camera, it features an "Autographic" feature that allowed photographers to sign a note on the top of the film which became visible after the film was developed.

Item is a small folding camera, one of the first series made for use with 127 film. It features black casing and black leather bellows.

Item is a black stereo camera for making your own View-Master slides. Film was wound twice through the camera with lenses raised/lowered for each pass. The camera make 69 stereo pairs of 12 x 13 mm exposures. It features a matched view-master anastigmat f3.5/25 mm coated lenses and has a 1/10-1/100 shutter.

Item is a folding camera with black casing, black leather bellows and metal clasps. It is a smaller model of the Vigilant Junior Six-16, and similar to the Kodak Vigilant Six-20 but with a simpler lens and shutter.

Item is a medium format camera with large bulb flash attachment, black casing and bellows, metal clasps and folding viewfinder. Originally sold for US $38, it was made for use with 620 film and features a body similar to cameras of the Kodak Monitor series.

Item is a 62 to 200 mm telephoto zoom lens with apertures f3.5 - f22.

Item is a 35 mm folding camera that has an accessory shoe attached. Comes with "color Skopar" F3.5/50 mm lens and a Prontor-S shutter.

Item is a pocket 110 camera, in blue plastic presentation case with flash Voightlander Easy Light System V200) and wrist strap. Electronic shutter.

Item consists of a Voigtländer Vito BL 35mm viewfinder camera. It has a Voigtländer Color-Skopar 1:3.5/50mm lens and a Prontor-SVS leaf shutter. It is similar to the Vito B, but features a built-in exposure meter.

Item is a 35 mm rangefinder camera. Part of the Vito C series, this camera is a later model and includes a Color-Skopar 50mm f 2.8 lens and a Pronto-LK shutter with speeds of 1/15-1/500 (+ bulb setting). An external selenium cell exposure meter, which is set by adjusting the f-stop and shutter speed until two needles in a window on the top of the camera line up.

Item is a folding Ikonta-A style camera; for 16 exposures on 120 rollfilm. It contains a Kolex Anastigmat f3.5/7 cm lens in a Dabit-Super shutter marked "OKAKO TOKYO" at the top.

Photograph of two children sitting on the floor with a dog, and images of four cameras. Text contains consumer information - describes the four cameras advertised.

Photograph of two children sitting on the floor with a dog, and images of four cameras. Text contains consumer information - describes the four cameras advertised.

Photograph of two men and two women in beach costumes, talking, and photograph of Ciné-Kodak Eight movie camera. Text contains consumer information - describes the camera’s affordability and the option of full-color Kodachrome film.

Item is a camera

Photograph of boat cutting through waves, with illustrations of two cameras being advertised. Text contains consumer information.

Fonds consists of records the Wilhelm E. Nassau created during his time at Wilfrid Laurier University, working in the development of the Audio-Visual department as a professor and curator of an extensive collection of photographic and film cameras and technology. This collection was amassed for the purpose of teaching students of the university and was curated by Nassau over the span of fourty years. Cameras were collected from students, faculty, and employees as well as purchased from local camera shows. The collection traced the history and development of the tools used in these fields. The collection was donated to both Brock University (motion picture and video materials) and the Ryerson University Library and Archives (still photography materials). Objects in the donation were distributed amoung the Heritage Camera Collection (2005.006), the Photography and Film Technology Collection (2005.005), and the Photographic Publications Collection (2005.003).

Item consists of a landscape format board poster featuring a portrait, oval-framed image of a woman peeking over a stereoscopic camera at the viewer.

Item is a wooden stereoscope viewer meant to be held. Has glass lenses and metal surrounding the lenses. Wooden circles around the lenses and metal are falling off

Item is a promotional brochure featuring Kodak Instamatic and Ektron cameras, Carousel projectors, motion picture cameras, and film.

Item is a stereographic camera for dual 24x23mm exposures on 35mm film. The camera was originally produced by the Graflex company (from 1955), sold under the Wray name beginning in 1959, with lenses produced by the optical company. The lenses are fixed-focus with aperture options from f4-f56.

Item is a double format twin-lens-reflex camera capable of exposing 120 and 35mm film. Camera was outfitted with a mask, pressure plate and take up spool adapter for format changes. Lens is a Yashikor 80mm F3.5 with shutter speeds 1 - 1/500 and Bulb.

Item is a manual, single-lens reflex 35mm camera that is an improved version of FX-3. Dedicated flash contact in hot shoe. Rubberized handgrip. All black body.

Item is a 35 mm camera with a split image rangefinder and automatic exposure camera. A signal appears in the viewfinder if the film will be overexposed and the shutter cannot be released. Lens is a Yashinon - DX, f1.7, 45 mm.

Item is a 35 mm camera with a coupled rangefinder. It features a Yashinon f2.8/4.5 cm lens and a Selenium meter that controls a Copal-SLV shutter. The case can be attached to the camera using the attached screw in the bottom of the case.

Item consists of a landscape format board poster printed with an orange background and the slogan "You press the button we do the rest" featuring an image of an early box camera in the centre.

Item consists of a landscape format board poster printed with the slogan "You press the button we do the rest" featuring an image of an early box camera in the centre.

Photograph of crowd on shore waving to people on board a large ship, with streamers filling the air. Text contains consumer information - describes camera use for vacation movies, and suggests those attending "the coronation" [likely of King George VI of the United Kingdom] capture it as a full-color movies.

Item consists of a box camera, for 5 x 7.5 cm exposures on 127 film. Model has two finder lenses placed horizontally across the top front side of the camera. The camera also has an extended hexagonal front plate around the lens with stops and closeup settings around it. There is a black enamel trim around the front end of the camera and a diamond shaped winding knob at the top right side.

Item is a 35mm Compur reflex leaf shutter film camera with a fixed 50mm f2.8, and selenium light meter, manufactured in Stuttgart, Germany. This model of the Contaflex was introduced in 1959 and was baed on the Contaflex Rapid. The aperture and shutter speed settings can be locked for aperture priority while maintining the same exposure. The camera also incldes a Carl Zeiss Monocular 8 x 30 B, which can be screwed onto the lens for telephoto work.

Item is a folding 35mm rangefinder camera with built-in dual range and uncoupled exposure meter. Manufactured in the Zeiss Ikon AG factory in Stuttgart, Germany from 1953-1955, this model has a Synchro Compur lens. The model name, "Contessa" is inscribed in gold on the leather door covering, and round rangefinder window directly above lens. The camera has double exposure protection and the shutter will not fire unless camera has film and is advanced.

Item is a 35mm rangefinder film camera with a fixed Color-Pantar 45mm f2.8 lens, and Prontor-Matic 500 shutter, manufactured in Stuttgart, Germany between 1963 and 1965.

Item is a 35 mm single lens reflex camera with an uncoupled selenium meter and automatic diaphragm. This camera features a Petri f1.8/55 mm lens made in Japan.

Item is a 35 mm camera with Cyrillic letters that resemble "Zopkuu" in Roman characters. The camera is attached to the leather case by a screw in the bottom. Zorki cameras are copies of Leica and other well-known 35 mm brands and particular model of Zorki features a self timer, an Industar-50 f3.5/50 mm lens, and a focal-plane shutter 1-1000. The Zorki - 4 is the most common Zorki, with more than 1.7 million made.

green-grey cardboard mount, captions recto and verso: "Authorized Ansco Color Finisher; Insist on Ariston Color Prints." Depicts man in trench coat and glasses, carrying a camera case (possibly sx-70?). He is on the deck of a ship, with lifeboat and water visible behind him.

borderless unmounted print depicts jockey with gear smiling for man with box camera. Another jockey can be seen to the side on podium. Verso ink stamp "This photograph was made by Pringle & Booth, 181 George St. Toronto, duplicates can be had at any time."