Carmen Pygmee Camera
The Pygmee is a small tin camera dating from the 1930s. It was made by Carmen SA of France. It
took twelve 24 x 24mm exposures on a special paper-backed roll film available at the time for 95 centimes.
A red window is used to count exposures.
There are two chrome levers on the face of the camera. One lever switches between time and instantaneous exposure, the other is the shutter release. The viewfinder is a very slim hollow tube located on top of the camera.
According to one source, not many of these cameras were sold. But I was pleased to find this one at the flea market in Belfort, France!
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Page created June 19, 2001; updated December 20, 2020
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