Well
known for its enlargers and projectors, the GNOME Company also produced
cameras from 1949 up to 1958. A good example of this production was the
Gnome Pixie-Flex.
It
is a pseudo TLR camera (but it was the very first camera of this type
produced in Wales) giving 6 x 6 negatives on a 620 film.
Its
enamelled metal body is solid and its front edges are carefully chromed.
It
is equipped with a large viewfinder which helps to differentiate it from
its cousin the Gnome Pixis which is using a sport frame viewer. Other
characteristics of these two cameras are identical. The shutter of the
Pixie-Flex has two settings, B and I, with “I” being approximately
1/50th sec.