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1940s

Cameras of the 1940s

Wartime accelerated lens and film technology; large-format press cameras documented a world at war.

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01 / ABOUT

Photography in the 1940s

Large-format press cameras like the Speed Graphic and Graflex Crown Graphic documented World War II and the post-war era for newspapers worldwide.

The Stereo Realist launched a 3D photography craze, and wartime optics advances fed directly into better camera lenses.

02 / THE CAMERAS

Every device from the 1940s

4 DEVICES · 1946–1947
Linhof Technika sample1946Linhof Technika4×5 Large Format, Field CameraGraflex Crown Graphic sample1947Graflex Crown Graphic4×5 Large Format, Ektar 127mm f/4.7Speed Graphic sample1947Speed Graphic4×5 Large Format, Press CameraStereo Realist sample1947Stereo Realist35mm Stereo 3D Camera
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BRANDS IN THIS ERA
Graflex1Linhof1Speed1Stereo1
TYPES IN THIS ERA
Digital cameras71Large format3
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