Title
Rolleiflex twin lens reflex camera
Year/Period
1950s
Region
Braunschweig, Germany
Object Type
still image cameras
Material
Metal
Dimension
Object size: H14.5 x W11
Accession No.
1993-00351
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Sam Kai Faye
NLB Type
Cultural artefact
Awarded the Grand Prix award at the 1937 Paris World’s Fair for its groundbreaking design, the Rolleiflex was a compact twin-lens reflex medium format camera, as compared to the other bulky models at that time. The camera, of typical German precision, thus quickly became popular among professional photographers around the world.This camera belonged to Sam Kai Faye, who was a former photojournalist of ‘The Straits Times’. He died on assignment in 1972 while covering the Vietnam War for the American ABC television network.
