🎉HP🎉Spartus Full-Vue 120 medium format camera

This simple Spartus Full-Vue pseudo TLR was made from 1948 to 1960 by American manufacturer Spartus. This model exposes twelve 6 x 6 cm square images on 120 film. The lens of its viewfinder is larger in diameter than its taking lens, giving a bright finder image on the hooded matte screen. Spartus used various metal face-plate designs and plastic moldings over the production period. Early examples were made of Bakelite, although later models may have been other plastics. This model has a thermoset plastic body (Bakelite) but the viewfinder cover is a softer non-thermoset plastic. The Falcon Magni-Vue is a very similar camera but precedes the Spartus Full-Vue.  The shutter is a simple Instant/Time type and there is no aperture adjustment possible. The twin-lens reflex provides a 4 x 4cm sized image on a ground glass viewer. It is fitted with a fixed focus lens. It is usually held at waist level to compose the image. There is a certain amount of parallax error for close-up subjects. It does not have a tripod socket. In 1949 it was improved with a synchronized flash