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Other than those faults, the camera is in good shape considering it’s probably about 75 years old. Everything above 1/10sec seems fine, so I guess that is the speed which changes to the slow speed escapement. A gentle push on the shutter cocking lever will close the shutter, but obviously this means the timing is completely unreliable. The other fault with this unit, which is again extremely common in cameras of this age, is the slow shutter speeds which stick and cause the shutter to remain open.
Because this is a 6×6 format camera I know the lens is not the 105mm version but it could be any of the others. The front trim to the lens which has the lens name on is also missing, and I assumed that was the result of someone trying to carry out a repair but, oddly enough, most of the pictures on flickr also had this trim missing if the filter was missing so I’m assuming the two were connected in such a way that the filter being broken also loosened the name plate.īecause that plate is missing I’m unsure of the lens fitted to this model – there were several different variants possible, a Voigtar 75mm f/3.5, a Heliar 75mm f/3.5, a Skopar 75mm f/3.5 or a Heliar 105mm f/3.5.
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