The Spartus 35 mm Camera was manufactured by the Spartus Camera Company, of Chicago Illinois in circa 1940. Constructed of bake-lite with chrome plated metal parts. Designed as an inexpensive 35mm camera for daylight loading color or black and white film cartridges. It featured a coated Achromat 50mm, f7.7 lens with three aperature lens openings (f7.7, f11, and f16), a simplified "Unispeed" shutter providing remarkable ease of operation, built-in tripod socket and automatic exposure counter. Priced at $12.50 and $3.50 for the carrying case. Later models incorporated a synchronized flash, and a built-in filter. A later model incorporated a synchronized flash and was priced at $14.50 with the flash attachment costing an additional $4.50.

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