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FINGER PRINT CAMERAs  by GRAFLEX (right) and WATSON&HOLMES (left)
Heavy duty metal special purpose camera for 1:1 finger-prints (Police, jails etc...how romantic).
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AVANT Quad Camera, USA, 1960s
Special ID/Passport camera
  
FAIRCHILD * OSCILLOSCOPE RECORD CAMERA (model 450A)
DU MONT LABORATORIES
Heavy (6Kg) Industrial camera, to be attached to an Oscilloscope and take Polaroid photos.
ALPHAX HEAVY SYNCHRO f1.9  and a Polaroid back.
MEDICAL  &  DENTAL CAMERAs
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CORECO Automatic Flash Camera,  USA
1950's
 BURTON CLINICAL CAMERA,   USA
1940-50s
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M2A,  A tiny medical-capsule-camera that is swallowed  (Single-use....)
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Big WOOD RECORD CAMERA * Home made? 1930-40s ?
For 35mm film but it is a still camera. A strange looking mechanism to advance the film and shoot.
It has an handle on top to carry (It's very heavy so I don't envy the photographer)
This type of camera was used especially in schools, clubs, universities and even jails
to photograph individuals, quickly, and without hassle.Fast way to take individual pictures of a very large
number of people, in a fixed spot under a fixed lighting.
There were several manufacturers of such cameras in the early thirties, and many were also home made.
Lens: BETAX No. 2 Wollensak, Focus Series VII
  
MICROSCOPE  cameras * 1960-80s
Left to right: NIKON M35 with a big Zeiss- element which includes a round inner-flash,
ZEISS M35 and an unamed C35 (NIKON too?).  Those 35mm film-cameras were specialy made
for the labs to be attached to microscopes so they don't have thier own lenses.