Acro Model R

The Model R (identified on the box, as in the advertisement below, as the Model R Candid Camera) is a half-frame (i.e. 3x4 cm) uncoupled-rangefinder camera for 127 film, made by Acro of Chicago, circa 1940. It makes sixteen pictures on a roll of film. It has a plastic body, of a type similar to many 'minicams' made by companies of the Chicago cluster, but with a rather better lens and shutter unit than those cameras, mounted on a metal plate screwed to the front.