Malutka prototype?

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Topic author: okynek

Posted on: 20080515110420

http://cgi.ebay.com/SIDA-rare-submini-camera_W0QQitemZ310049552962QQihZ021QQcategoryZ709QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262

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Reply author: mermoz37

Replied on: 20080515121914

Not at all , it is a very common Sida camera (Kraftanski work)
you can see it in my wooden box maliutka / lilliput collection i show you some times ago.

Reply author: okynek

Replied on: 20080515141156

I see. It actually looks more like Liliput, not like Malutka.
So can we say that Liliput was a copy of Sida?

Reply author: okynek

Replied on: 20080515141912

This Sida camera seem to be even more popular for copymakers then Leika II [:)]
See:
http://www.submin.com/large/collection/sida/index.htm

Reply author: Vlad

Replied on: 20080515184416

Okynek,

I have seen these on eBay quite often REALLY cheap if you ever want to buy one, even as low as $30.

Vlad

Reply author: okynek

Replied on: 20080515232416

No I am not planning to buy Sida yet.
As I remember I use to collect Russian cameras [:)]
But I was surprised to know the origin of Liliput and Malutka.
I was thinking they was completely Russian creation. I was wrong [:)]

Reply author: mermoz37

Replied on: 20080516025659

you must read something about Fritz Kaftanski strange life ....something like a stateless ingeneer, whith built cameras in poland, Tchekoslovaquia, France , germany...may be England.

Reply author: mermoz37

Replied on: 20080516025918

http://regis.boissier.free.fr/fotofexcameras/fex%20&%20photax/FEX%20fritz_kaftanski.htm

Reply author: okynek

Replied on: 20080516074854

Very interesting! And this simple cameras was produced til 1970 ?! Amazing! Long lives the King!!!