Labeled Honeywell, but not a Pentax

[casualcollector]

Honeywell was the official importer of Pentax cameras to the US from the early 1960s until about the mid 70s. I found this camera in a thrift store on Monday. It is not of Pentax origin as the engraving about the lens makes clear.

[Randy]

It sure does!

[Andrew]

Ron seems to have a bunch of info on this on his page, seems it was also sold under different names as well, the 'Vulcan' version was apparently used by Mr Spock

honeywell also seems to have imported and sold some 110 instamatics

Rons' mamiya site
herron.50megs.com/rangefinder.htm

[herron]

Look familiar?

It's the Mamiya EE Merit, a lens shutter 35mm rangefinder first released in February 1962.

It had a fixed 40mm f/2.8 Mamiya-Kominar lens, an automatic shot counter and four shutter speed settings: 1/30, 1/60, 1/125 and 1/250.

It was also marketed by Honeywell as the Honeywell Electric Eye 35. Another version was sold as the Mansfield Eye-Tronic R (Mansfield was a division of Argus, Inc).

I had seen another name variant, known as the Vulcan which, thanks to a reader of my Mamiya forum, was confirmed as another rebranded Mamiya EE Super Merit, sold in the UK through the retailer Dixons.



Edit: By the way, Andrew, thanks for the plug!