This is the back of a camera, probably a bellows camera, that takes 620 film. The lens and bellows are missing. The date listed here is approximate.

The Filmo 70 is the first spring motor-driven 16mm camera, the first in the long-running Filmo series. This is an A model, with a sing f/3.5 lens and two film speeds, 8 and 16 frames per second. 16 frames per second was considered standard at the time. This model was intended for home video or amateur film, but later models became popular for filming news in war zones due to the ruggedness of the cameras. This particular camera may have been previously owned by Albert N. Mills '06, a Grinnell alum who appears in the 1906 edition of the Cyclone. The manual has his name written on it in two places.

The Polaroid Spectra SE is a later member of the Spectra line of Polaroid cameras, which appears to be similar to the Spectra Pro and Spectra AF models. This camera features an f/10 125mm coated lens, and produces 4.0" x 4.1" images using 990 film, also called "Spectra" or "Image".

The Hawk-Eye No. 2 Model C is an extremely simple box camera for Kodak 120 film with a fixed aperture and one very small viewfinder. The lens of the camera is behind the guillotine-style shutter, and is a very small meniscus lens.

This Empire 120 box camera is of very simple all-metal construction, and bears a mark from J.E. Mergott Co. of Newark, New Jersey. This company also made metal frames for handbags, which matches this camera's all-metal construction. This is an example of a relatively generic, cheap camera, allowing ordinary people to take pictures.

This is a Kodak 35 Rangefinder, an upgraded model of the Kodak 35 featuring a coupled rangefinder similar to the Argus C series of cameras. This particular camera has a f/3.5 50mm Kodak Anastar lens and serial number ET5608. It is inside a "Deluxe Field Case" also manufactured by Kodak.

This is an Polaroid-based oscilloscope camera, intended to take pictures of the data on a CRT oscilloscope. Modern digital oscilloscopes typically have a screenshot function, rendering a camera like this obsolete. This particular model can be directly mounted to a Tektronix 577, 600-series, 1420-series, or a 5100-series instrument. It has a fixed focus and aperture, and a small viewing window so that the user can view the oscilloscope readout while using the camera. This model has serial number B049465.

This device is intended to copy Polaroid images taken by a Polaroid Land Camera model 110 or 110A. It is essentially a scanner, with the camera that takes the scans separate from the scanner. This box contains a flash, a timer, and a mounting point to hold the camera and original photograph exactly in place. The exposure time of the copy is much longer than for the original image. Images that were taken under- or over-exposed can be fixed in copying by exposing for different amounts of time. The manual reccomends an exposure time of up to 25 seconds to improve a very under-exposed image, and an exposure time as little as 4 seconds to slightly darken an over-exposed image. The contrast of the copy can be decreased by decreasing the development time from 1 minute to 45 seconds.

The Argus Model A helped to popularize the 135 format of film in the United States. This was a low-cost camera at $12.50 in 1936 - around $290 in 2025 dollars. The camera body is made of bakelite, with apertures of f/4.5, f/5.6, f/8, and f/11 and a collapsible lens. This particular camera is in a leather case that flaps down for picture-taking, and has a short start-up manual with the inscription requesting its return if found. Serial Number: 15435

This video camera records to 8mm video format cassettes, and is capable of recording both video and sound. Videos can be played back to TVs or color monitors by AV inputs. Videos can also be watched back directly on the camera. Some edits can be done on the camera, such as recording title screens and inserting footage over other footage, for making more advanced home videos. This camera comes with a large case of accessories, and the soft-touch plastic on the camera body is beginning to degrade and become sticky.

Very similar to the King camera made by Rochester Camera Mfg. Co., this camera is distinguished by the direction of the springs on the back (two springs facing the other two, rather than all being in the same direction) and brass pieces on the side of the camera. This is a very large camera, though it could be folded if it were in better condition. On this particular camera, the bellows are ripped in a few places. Pictures it took would have been with glass plates, not film.

The Rexo 1A, manufactured between 1916 and 1931, was positioned as a lower-price alternative to the Kodak Autographic popular at the time. This camera folds into a rectangular shape for travel and storage, and uses 2.5/4.5 inch film. The lens is a F7-5 Rexo Anastigmat F 5 1/4 in lens, and it has an Ilex shutter.

This early Polaroid camera prints to 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 instant packfilm. A relatively affordable model at $49.95 in 1965, the camera has clear operating instructions printed on it. The lens is 114mm f/8.8, with a shutter that can go between 1/1200 and 10 seconds. This particular camera was once used by the Chemistry Department here at Grinnell.