{"product_id":"vanguard-spartus-camera","title":"Vanguard Spartus Camera","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: AS IS. Not film tested. This Vanguard Spartus\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis in remarkably good condition for its age. Perfect candidate for display, maybe even shooting. Scroll down to learn why this camera thinks it’s remarkable. Spoiler: it has a point.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHerold Products operating out of Chicago during those optimistic years between 1960 and 1962, produced the Vanguard Spartus at a moment when even a toy-grade camera needed to look like it could survive re-entry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCast in high-impact plastic with a brushed aluminum faceplate that catches the light like a Studebaker hood ornament, this particular unit belongs to the 1961 Rocket-type batch. A single uncoated Meniscus element doing its slightly myopic best.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt shoots 127 roll film, twelve exposures at 4cm x 4cm nominal, through a 1\/50th-second rotary shutter and a sliding plate that shifts between f\/11 for B\u0026amp;W and f\/16 for colour*, as though it understood that Kodachrome deserved one additional stop of respect.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe eye-level viewfinder is bright. There's no double-exposure prevention on the ratcheted metal advance knob, which means the shutter will snap as many times as your finger cares to ask.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSome units came in brown-tinted bodies; this one didn't, but isn't it enough that it exists at all, this compact, space-age artifact, a camera that was never quite serious and is, for precisely that reason, impossible to forget?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e*The shift to f\/16 for colour might seem counterintuitive today since colour film was slower, but it was a design choice intended to force users to only shoot colour in the brightest possible light, ensuring a \"safe\" exposure for a camera with a slow 1\/50s shutter.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vanguard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48201918644411,"sku":"BROW-VANG-35MM-F1.8-FILM-127-100192","price":18.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/download_96da3722-cb6f-4276-81e2-378c3f330b01.jpg?v=1785966568","url":"https:\/\/www.foxandtalbot.com\/products\/vanguard-spartus-camera","provider":"Fox and Talbot Cameras","version":"1.0","type":"link"}