Kardon 35

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Premier Instrument Co.
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, NY, New York
INTRODUCTION DATE: ca. 1945
FILM TYPE: 35mm rollfilm
IMAGE SIZE: 24 x 36 mm.
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: 35mm rangefinder
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: 47mm f/2.0 Kodak Ektar
INTERCHANGEABLE LENS: Yes    INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  "35mm Leica IIIa copy. Made for the Signal Corps, and also for
  civilians. Ektar f2/47mm lens. Cloth focal plane shutter, 1 to 1000.
  Coupled rangefinder.
  Civilian Model - Uses standard Leica style advance knob and shutter
  release. No rear nameplate on body. Civilian lens mounts with
  knurled focusing wheel toward top between slow speed dial and RF
  window (11 o'clock position viewed from front). $600-900.
  Signal Corps Model - Obvious identification is rear nameplate on body.
  Military models were also designed to be operated more easily when
  wearing gloves, with an enlarged cylindrical advance knob, removable
  tall extension for release button, and with lens focusing wheel near
  bottom of camera (7 o'clock position) away from the other controls."
  McKeown, 1997.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: P9286.00001

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: McKeown, Jim & McKeown, Joan. --Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras: 1997/1998.-- Grantsburg, WI: Centennial Photo, 1996. p 369.//