Soho Cadet - Antique and Vintage Cameras

Soho Cadet

1931

Meniscus lens model

Soho Ltd

London

England

Image of Soho Cadet Meniscus lens model

Lens:
Meniscus element.

Shutter:
T and I settings.

Construction:
Maroon coloured plastic body, maroon leather bellows.

Format:
8, 2 ¼" x 3 ¼" exposures on 120 roll-film.

Focusing:
Settings of Near and Far.

Attributes:
Brilliant view-finder, swivels for portrait or landscape.
Film advance indicated by red window. Not coupled to shutter.

Doublet lens model

Image of  Doublet lens model

Lens:
Two element, 4 rotating stops.

Shutter:
T and I settings.

Construction:
Maroon coloured plastic body, maroon leather bellows.

Format:
8, 2 ¼" x 3 ¼" exposures on 120 roll-film.

Focusing:
Settings of Near and Far.

Attributes:
Brilliant view-finder, swivels for portrait or landscape.
Film advance indicated by red window. Not coupled to shutter.

With:
Part of box.

The Cadet was produced in two forms: a folding bed type or a strut model. The colour was described in advertisements as rosewood. Early woodcuts do not show the rotating stops on the Doublet model.

The folding bed model was at first sold with a meniscus lens, at 25/-, by 1933 a model with a doublet lens was sold, at 30/-. A model for '16-on' having two red windows was introduced in 1933 called the Tuon.

References & Notes:
BP 330438/1929. BJA 1932, pp. 36, 294. BJA 1934, p. 234.


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