Purma Special: Simple but Ingenious
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Ever wonder how a rotary telephone works, how sailors and pilots navigated by the stars, or how mechanical calculators perform complex math using only gears? Then you've come to the right place! Our Own Devices is a channel dedicated to the fascinating world of vintage technology, and the many elegant and ingenious ways our ancestors solved even the most complex technical problems. Want more fascinating history? I am a regular staff writer for Today I Found Out and many of its sister channels: https://www.youtube.com/@TodayIFoundOut I also have a historical adventure novel titled 'Our Own Devices' set in 1920s Morocco. Check it out at my personal website: www.gillesmessier.ca And finally, I make 1920s/30s-style Art Deco posters, which you can purchase on my Etsy store: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/DecoEchoes
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Introduced in 1937, the Purma Special was one of the first affordable, plastic-bodied point-and-shoot cameras manufactured and sold in the UK. What made the camera unique, however, was its innovative shutter mechanism, whose speed could be altered by changing the orientation of the camera. 0:00 Introduction 1:08 Origins of the Purma Company 2:08 Purma Speed (1936) 2:35 Purma Special (1937) 3:25 Exterior Features 5:25 Gravity Shutter Operation 6:11 Disassembly 6:55 Shutter Operation: Gravity 7:29 Shutter Operation: Cam Wheel 8:50 Purma Plus (1951) 9:23 The End of Purma 10:15 Outro Pseudo TLR Cameras Video: https://youtu.be/Yy7IdUirDXc SOURCES https://mikeeckman.com/2021/06/purma-special-1937/ http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/page_standard.php?id_appareil=642 http://www.vintagephoto.tv/purma.shtml http://www.artdecocameras.com/cameras/purma/special/ http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_C63.html http://licm.org.uk/livingImage/Purma_Special.html http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Purma https://twisted.org.uk/~moondog/127/cameras/purma/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130909011049/http://www.gbcameras.org.uk/Purma/Purma index.htm https://www.cameramanuals.org/pdf_files/purma_guide.pdf https://www.cameramanuals.org/pdf_files/purma_plus_booklet.pdf
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