Product code: Bell popular & Howell Perpetua Model 393
Format: 8mm Transport: Spring-wind Exposure: Automatic (selenium cell) popular Approx. date of manufacture: 1958 Approx. original price: $159.95 This is a Model 393 Perpetua. B&H didn't bother to put a designation on it anywhere, other than Electric-Eye, which was their trade name for their automatic metering system. Danke to Reinhard Stabentheiner of Austria for identifying it! There's another Perpetua (I don't know the model number) which is virtually identical except that it is a single lens rather than a turret model. Nice camera, though. Besides the automatic eye, it's got the three-lens turret, a behind-the-lens filter slot, and mutliple film speeds (10-40 fps).
Format: 8mm Transport: Spring-wind Exposure: Automatic (selenium cell) popular Approx. date of manufacture: 1958 Approx. original price: $159.95 This is a Model 393 Perpetua. B&H didn't bother to put a designation on it anywhere, other than Electric-Eye, which was their trade name for their automatic metering system. Danke to Reinhard Stabentheiner of Austria for identifying it! There's another Perpetua (I don't know the model number) which is virtually identical except that it is a single lens rather than a turret model. Nice camera, though. Besides the automatic eye, it's got the three-lens turret, a behind-the-lens filter slot, and mutliple film speeds (10-40 fps).