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At the end of the WWII, Roger Vergne decided to implement at the number 44 of the Avenue des Champs Elysées in Le Perreux (France), a factory producing photographic cameras. The quantity of cameras produced in this factory was very limited but all were of a great quality.
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The '''Atlas 6x6''' is a box camera for 6x6 cm pictures on [[620 film]], made in 1949 by [[Vergne]] in Le-Perreux-sur-Marne, on the outskirts of Paris. The body of the camera is made from folded sheet steel. According to ''le Vieil Album'', only about 2000 copies of the camera were made.<ref name=VA>[http://vieilalbum.com/Atlas6x6US.htm Atlas 6x6] at [http://vieilalbum.com/ Le Vieil Album], including a picture of the camera.</ref> It was available with three different lenses:
  
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The most famous model produced by Vergne at Le Perreux's factory was the Atlas 6x6. It is a small box in sheet stell using film 620 for negatives of format 6 x 6 cm. This camera was available in three versions :
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*A simple [[meniscus lens]] (the Atlas 6x6 'Royal')
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*[[Roussel]] Trylor 1:4,5 f=75 and ATOS-1 shutter or the [[Gitzo]] shutter on the example pictured here ('GITZ∆-PARIS' type A, with pre-tensioning), giving speeds 1/25-1/200 second, plus 'B'
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*Roussel [[Stylor]] 1:3,5 f=75 and ATOS-2 shutter
  
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Atlas 6x6 ROYAL with simple meniscus
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There is also a model in which advancing the film cocks the shutter (serving as a double-exposure prevention linkage), named the Atlas 6x6 'Automatic', and an Atlas 6x9 model.<ref name=VA/>
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Atlas 6x6 with lens Trylor Roussel 1:4,5 f=75 and shutter ATOS-1
 
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Atlas 6x6 with lens Stylor Roussel 1:3,5 f=75 and shutter ATOS-2
 
  
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Only 2000 boxes of this model were produced during the year 1949. Today, it is quite difficult to find.
 
  
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Atlas 6x6
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The Atlas 6x6 is a box camera for 6x6 cm pictures on 620 film, made in 1949 by Vergne in Le-Perreux-sur-Marne, on the outskirts of Paris. The body of the camera is made from folded sheet steel. According to le Vieil Album, only about 2000 copies of the camera were made.[1] It was available with three different lenses:

  • A simple meniscus lens (the Atlas 6x6 'Royal')
  • Roussel Trylor 1:4,5 f=75 and ATOS-1 shutter or the Gitzo shutter on the example pictured here ('GITZ∆-PARIS' type A, with pre-tensioning), giving speeds 1/25-1/200 second, plus 'B'
  • Roussel Stylor 1:3,5 f=75 and ATOS-2 shutter

There is also a model in which advancing the film cocks the shutter (serving as a double-exposure prevention linkage), named the Atlas 6x6 'Automatic', and an Atlas 6x9 model.[1]


Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Atlas 6x6 at Le Vieil Album, including a picture of the camera.
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