This is a Herco Imperial Camera that dates from about 1959, I got it on ebay from Fletcher, North Carolina.( @sitiodown may know where this is) I imagine it being at JFK election rallies, Buddy Holly concerts,Beatles shows, Woodstock, taking a picture of a TV showing the moon landing, Richard Nixon leaving the white house. The reality is it probably took snaps of kittens, Graduations, Grandma's birthdays. It came with It's box which tells me it has a scientifically safe flash and telescopic sight which along with its ground and polished lens gives beautifully detailed 2x2 inch pictures on 620 film. It has a single shutter speed of 1/30 of a second and f11 aperture. So the Buddy Holly and Beatles pictures would have been dark and shaky while Grandma would be blind for the day after that flash has done with her,
It's just a nice piece of photographic history which appeals to me...
Oh how I was loving your delicious description...and then I laughed out loud! Given your wonderful imagination, I can see this as a book cover and one old photo per page with some brief story to go with it... I was one of eBay's earliest customers and have "bazillion old photo albums" to show for it! How delightful for you to have made this lovely connection with a wonderfully photographed camera so "of an era"!
(John, I don't know if you ever read your notifications... You once said how much you thought you'd like our music venues here in Lunenburg. Just Sunday night I captured a wonderfully spontaneous burst of opera enthusiasm! The information about the evening is in the youtube description if you'd care to see and hear it... https://youtu.be/8QSAs5Yp6-k
(John, I don't know if you ever read your notifications... You once said how much you thought you'd like our music venues here in Lunenburg. Just Sunday night I captured a wonderfully spontaneous burst of opera enthusiasm! The information about the evening is in the youtube description if you'd care to see and hear it... https://youtu.be/8QSAs5Yp6-k