The Korona Series I camera was manufactured by the Gundlach Optical Company in circa 1900. designed as a low cost compact camera that provides a sufficient range of movements for all kinds of indoor and outdoor photography. Constructed of wood with a seal grain cover. Manual focus with a rising and falling wood front. The hardware is nickel plated and highly polished. Spring actuated ground glass focusing screen to accept Korona plate holders. A reversible brilliant finder and two tripod sockets. Fitted with a special symmetrical lens housed in a junior automatic shutter. The camera was available in two sizes to take either 4 x 5 or 5 x 7. Price in 1902 was $12 and $16 respectively.

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