Wooden camera

[paparazzi mano]

I was wondering if anyone has any idea if a wooden rangefinder was ever produced?

I have sudden developed a great interest in vintage wood >100yrs after looking at an exhibition of wooden funiture

cheers

 

[Pirate]

Well, some of the old 4x5, et al, large formats came with Rangefinders, and they're made of wood.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Not RF, but several 35mm cameras before about 1930: Sico (1922), Unette (1923/4), Ansco Memo (1927 -- I think it was wood).

In larger formats, including even 6x9cm, there were several wooden cameras with coupled RFs.

Most (?all) were however leather covered.

Cheers,

R.

 

[Olsen]

Arturo Rebora

Arturo Rebora

I would call these cameras for, at least, party made of wood: http://www.exakta.org/rebora/

 

[Pico]

Wooden cameras did not, for the most part, show any great concern for high-quality wood work such as matched (or properly contrasted) grain, or machining/carving with the material in mind - IOW, wood was just the common economic material of choice.

For exemplary exceptions we have to look to limited productions and also more recently made cameras. Today, a choice of special wood and great workmanship is more prestigious than ever. Great wood is becoming scarce. Great craftsmanship has always been scarce.

 

[oftheherd]

Not RF, but several 35mm cameras before about 1930: Sico (1922), Unette (1923/4), Ansco Memo (1927 -- I think it was wood).

In larger formats, including even 6x9cm, there were several wooden cameras with coupled RFs.

Most (?all) were however leather covered.

Cheers,

R.

Yes, I was sort of assuming the OP was referring to bare wood cameras. I never heard of that type of a wood camera with a rangefinder. But who knows. One may have been made, or somebody may have cobbled an RF to one, which isn't of course the same.