Unboxing Some History

A little free time to begin opening boxes of photo things from one place and another, and that I've collected over the years. Looks like the Polaroid Model 95 is going to need a fairly extensive tear-down and cleaning to look good. Never know, I might get to it. It's the first model of the first series with a little dingleberry on a spring on the front standard. - Inside the camera back the rollers. These were (one shows here) the precision stuff that broke a chemical pod and spread goo between taking film and image receiving sheet. A camera that was used a lot would have evidence of chemical damaging the inside of the camera. This camera seems to have been used very little. Or perhaps cleaned fastidiously after each roll of eight shots.

And the Kodak solenoid for flashbulb synchronization is marked as being nearly as old as I am. Manufactured in 1951. Solenoid is how it was done on many shutters without internal flash contacts. Pushing a button on the flash gun fired a flashbulb and also energized a solenoid that tripped the shutter release.

Takes me back in time to a time I never knew. 

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