What Is A "Black Beauty" Camera?

[Eric Philbin]

I was offered a "black beauty" LF camera w/o lens. What is this camera and how m uch should it be worth.

thanks

eric

[Bob Salomon]

Wasn't this offered to ypu for something like $50.00 without lens when you asked for a "cheap" camera?

Ask the offerer what it really is.

You can't get a 45 for much less then that.

[Erec Grim]

The "Black Beauty" was the name of the Green Hornet's sleek, super-powered car. In it the Green Hornet and his faithful valet Cato chased criminals even the G-Men could not touch. (The green Hornet was actually Brit Reed, wealthy young publisher of the Daily Sentinel.)

I hope this helps.

[Ken Burns]

If Brit Reed was a newspaper publisher, maybe he named his car after the camera called the "Black Beauty."

[Wayne Campbell]

I have seen the term "Black Beauty" used umpteen times on eBay, often for the Seneca large format cameras which were finished in a satiny black.

[Pete Andrews]

Isn't it a song by Little Richard? Ohh! Black beauty, bam ba lam.

[Sean Yates]

I thought it was a book by Walter Mosely?

[Andrew McPhee]

I thought it was Max Mosely...

[adam friedberg]

a soporific. about $10 each street price.

[scambug]

Black Beauty was the name given to a very popular (black) pill that was widely abused by hedonistic drug addicts in years past. I can't remember if it was an upper or a downer.