henrik_holm_brask Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Hello. Can anyone help me with finding out anything about this camera - Mansfield EYE-TRONIC, I know it is a Mamiya (EE Merit/Super Merit ?) sold in the US as a Mansfield EYE-TRONIC and even as a Honeywell Electric Eye, in the UK it was sold as a Vulcan. The year it was made was about 1962. I have not been able to find one exactly the same as mine on pictures on the internet, there is only a Mansfield EYE-TRONIC model with the exposure-counter close to the flash-shoe, on my model of Mansfield EYE-TRONIC the exposure-counter is out to the front end of the camera in the front-left corner, and the counter window is narrow and one side is curved. I am very hapy to own it, it is in very good working order, apeture, shutter and even the expusure.meter is fully working, all over it still nearly looks like new. Thank you. Best wishes Henrik Holm Brask<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickc1 Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 I am unable to give you any more info about the camera, but in the UK Mansfield wasd one of the 'house' brands sold by the Dixons Photographic chain in the 60s - I had a (very) secondhand Mansfield standard 8 movie camera from them in about 1969 or 70. Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winfried_buechsenschuetz1 Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 Why not try google? It yields this result: http://herron.50megs.com/rangefinder.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrik_holm_brask Posted August 5, 2008 Author Share Posted August 5, 2008 Hello Winfried. I have goooled a lot of times and I have some of my knowledge from the website you mention - see my information above. I have not been able to find more than about 10 more or less usable records on the internet (the are other search-machines than google !) and no website have any accurate detail of the camera ! My only option now is to find help in a forum and hope someone knows something about the Mansfield EYE-TRONIC camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustin McAmera Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 McKeown has an Eye-tronic R with a coupled rangefinder and an Eye-tronic 35 without. It says here that Mansfield was a division of Argus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winfried_buechsenschuetz1 Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 OK, then you already did your google search... The problem is that this camera obviously has no particular technical features and was no milestome in camera history. You will always have problems finding detailed information about mass-market and rather low-end cameras like this. Sorry, but even the web does not answer all questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrik_holm_brask Posted August 10, 2008 Author Share Posted August 10, 2008 To Pete: Yes I found out that it was a division of Argus, but it seems to be a blind end there. To Winfried: I have owned the worlds most highend cameras and I tell you the Mansfield (which is a Mamiya) is not a rather low-end camera just because it is simple, when you lift it you will fell at once that this is a camera more than crap !!!! And mass-market camera no way - then I would have found someone who knew just a little bit of the camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_m Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 It does not look like a 'low-end' camera to me - it looks beautifully designed and manufactured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophie_evans Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 <p>Um, I'd just like to highlight the fact that I know very little about this sort of thing. But, i have the camera you're talking about, Mansfield EYE-TRONIC, and i was wondering if you knew how I'd go about actually using it?<br> Thanks!</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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