{"id":29155,"date":"2024-07-17T01:03:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T05:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=29155"},"modified":"2024-07-12T01:25:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T05:25:02","slug":"what-on-earth-is-a-flotemar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/what-on-earth-is-a-flotemar\/","title":{"rendered":"what on earth is a FLOTEMAR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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a “Flotemar” (?) camera as photographed by Bob Lansdale<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. The late John Kantymir and his father both collected cameras – some very rare. One camera John came across simply had the name “FLOTEMAR” embossed on its base. No other name or country was indicated. A Google search was as unsuccessful then (2012\/13) \u00a0as now (2024).<\/p>\n

Please note that the photo (at left) was taken by Bob Lansdale and ‘upscaled’ in Topaz Photo AI which still mangles text occasionally as it did here.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the camera is German. In German Flote<\/em> means flute and mar<\/em> means sea or in English ‘sea flute’. A search on Google for sea flute<\/a> shows it to be a type of Norwegian recorder copied from German recorders of the day imported by sea, hence ‘sea flute’ in Norwegian. So perhaps our mystery camera is called ‘Recorder’ . Who knows?<\/p>\n

Editor Bob Lansdale suggests, “John Kantymir comes up with some weird and wonderful cameras for his \u201cA Treasure from my collection\u201d column but here is a cameras that has completely stumped him.<\/p>\n

“With the name Flotemar engraved on a medallion ensconced on the outside bed of this folder, it leads to no data as the company or country of manufacture.<\/p>\n

“It is quite a unique camera in its odd shape and its two-part construction; it may be a one-off pre-production model that never went into manufacture.\u00a0Quite a hefty camera at 3.2 pounds which might have something to do with its non-production.”<\/p>\n

The column appears in issue 39-1 of our journal. Members back then read the hard copy version of 39-1. More recently, members can read about this strange camera in the pdf version of 39-1 which appears on our DVD (it covers all volumes of Photographic Canadiana<\/em> from 1 to 40). And you are STILL not a member? Okay, let the moths loose and follow the menu item “MEMBERSHIP” above, or the PayPal set-up in the right hand sidebar. Once your membership is received, a copy of the DVD will be sent to you by Canada Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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