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Universal Meteor

1947·Camera

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The Universal Meteor is a 620 film camera produced by the Universal Camera Corporation in New York City, NY. While McKeown's dates it as circa 1949[1], it was definitely being advertised, for a price of $15, as early as 1947[2]. The plumply streamlined body has a pull-out lens tube with a coated lens, which can be guess focused from infinity to 5 feet. The self-resetting shutter offers "instant" and "bulb" speeds, selected with the I /B lever atop the lens barrel.

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