New Taiwan: Suntone MM-350 (Focus Free)

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New Taiwan: Suntone MM-350 (Focus Free)

Postby bill339 » Sat Jun 20, 2020 7:50 am

The Suntone MM-350 is a basic camera for 35mm film that is cropped inside using about 60% of the center of the frame. This fake panoramic camera has a fixed-focus lens (marked as having a "Panoramic Lens"), a single aperture and a single shutter speed. It has manual film advance and rewind. The camera was produced sometime in the 1990s and had no flash capability. Other features are a panoramic optical viewfinder, fold down rewind crank, rewind release button on the bottom of the camera, film advance thumb wheel, frame counter on the top, and a bradded string type wrist carrier. This compact, point-and-shoot camera is mostly plastic and very light. Advancing the film also loaded the shutter so no double exposures. The MM-350 was made in China by New Taiwan Photographic Corporation and marketed by Suntone as a line of cameras. The name Suntone label appears on a number of cameras, as well as non-camera products such as radios, TV sets, telephones, flashlights, smoothie makers, and more. The name was owned by Sun Coast Merchandise Corp (founded 1943), based in Commerce, California. It is possible that many of the Suntone labeled cameras were not sold in stores, but were offered as promotional giveaways.

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