When Beauty isn’t subjective.
Let me explain, from around 1957 to 1963 there was a Japanese camera company that manufactured under the name Beauty. There really is very little information available so I’m relying on Camarapedia for much of it. http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Beauty_Lightomatic. This particular camera the Lightomatic, “wasn’t everything in the fifties ‘omatic?”, has a fast f1.9 45mm lens. The selenium cell is attached to a meter visible on the top and is coupled to the shutter and aperture. A unique feature of the film advance lever is that it needs to be left partially out otherwise the shutter is locked. The viewfinder has parallax correction and shows a generous amount of area outside the picture frame. It’s an attractive camera that I will need to test further to determine it’s strengths and weaknesses.
