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Kershaw Eight-20 Penguin

Kershaw·1946·Camera

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The Kershaw Eight-20 Penguin is one of the simpler cameras by Kershaw-Soho. It is a vertical folding camera for eight pictures 2¼x3¼ inches (approximately 6x8 cm) on 120 roll film. When the bellows is unfolded its front plate is in a fixed position. But despite the camera's simplicity it offers a distance selector with a range from 6 feet to infinity. The distance lever moves the lens/shutter-unit forward or backward, and also moves a pointer on the opposite side of the lens tube. A marker is pr

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