Irwin Corporation was an American camera manufacturer, based in New York. You made several chambers" sardine" , some of whose originals may have been made of cans of sardines [1]. They also made 16mm cameras marked" Irwin Imperial" .
Today we want to introduce a couple of cameras with an appearance very current. And this is not unusual, since both cameras, along with others such as & nbsp Kandor, or the Komet are considered the ancestors of the current Lomographic camera La Sardina. But ... what exactly is lomography
the history of lomography began in 1982 in St. Petersburg, with the creation of the Lomo LC-a, an improved version of the Cosina CX-1. 9 years later a group of young students from Vienna came up with the Lomo LC-A and started to popularize both the model and the type of photos that were obtained, also made from novel angles. The rest is history, with the creation of the Lomographic Society International in 1992, international exhibitions, invading the market with cameras like the Diana +, new movies ... and the launch of La Sardina.
But back to our cameras, as you can see have an aesthetic very similar La Sardina, and we do not need to explain what they all have in common: they seem really a can of sardines
Legend has it that a sailor named Irwin, photography enthusiast, created a camera of a can of sardines on a brief stopover in Douarnenez, France, in 1934
Later this sailor moved to Chicago, where they allied with local gangsters to transport illegally sardines from France to the United States to make their Kandor cameras. what it is is sure the company Irwin Corporation began selling film cameras 127 shaped tin of sardines at the price of $ 2.98, but the company was not in Chicago, but in New York
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The Sunbeam Minicam was manufactured by the firm Sunbeam Camera Comany between 1938 and 1948 . the Lark Candid Type was manufactured by Irwin Corp. on 1939. It has a lens Eyvar 50mm and caught exposures 3x4cm on a reel of 127 virgin, a type of very popular reel in the '50s but almost extinct today. the Irwin Corp. marketed these cameras, . mainly through drugstores and small bazaars Cheap for reference I can say that Lark was $ 1.49 in the early '40s
