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Chapter 15 - The B.C.C Beauty Super II

Beauty Super II
Beauty Super II

Front, back, top & bottom of the f/2 Beauty Super II.

Beauty Super II
Beauty Super II
Beauty Super II f/2.8

Front view of the f/2.8 Beauty Super II.

Early Beauty Super II

Early f/2 with the sync socket in the "wrong" position.

Beauty Super II box
1959 Beauty Super II magazine advert

February 1959 advertisement  from Popular Photography magazine (with the early sync socket in the "wrong" position").

Serial Numbers

f/1.9 (7 examples in a range of 3855) K6067, K8752, K9006, K9332, K9481, K9578, K9788, K9921 

f/2 (37 examples in a range of 6,870) K1396, K1566, K1881, K1925, K2328, K2682, K2734, K2738, K3035, K3043, K3098, K3253, K3312, K3465, K3615, K3882, K3994, K4293, K4369, K4447, K4963, K5227, K5322, K5347, K5362, K5400, K5565, K5649, K5678, K5848, K5938, K6062, K6203, K6262, K6298, K6582, K6747, K7406, K7730, K8136, K8170, K8265

f/2.8 (48 examples in  range of 20,111 including Varicon models) K2745 - K4517, K4859 - K5008, K5168, K5362, K5517, K5938 - K6547, K6701 -  K7031, K7144, K7147, K7308 - K8136, K8666 - K10173, K10266, K10636, K10703 - K11665 - K12083, K12219, K12237, K12305, K12375 - K13804 - K14015, K14309, K14547, K14677 - K15478 - K16872 - K17933 - K18374, K18430, K18462 - K19117, K19171 - K20086, K20463, K20503, K20650 - K21063, K21316, K21716, K21750, K21939, K21963 - K22790, K22855

Discussions about and photos of (from the days before the nonsense myths about the Beauty Camera Company  abounded) an f/1.9 model at photo.net.

Instruction Manual for the f/2.8 model at Butkus.

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updated 13/09/2026

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