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The '''Beltica''' was a folding camera for 35mm film, one of the first products of the Eastgerman '''VEB Belca-Werk''', the former plant of '''[[Balda]]-Werk Max Baldeweg''' in Dresden. The distance selection wheel below the camera's optical viewfinder allowed proper vertical parallax correction. Another modern feature was the exposure counter whilst the lens was a traditional construction with folder, shutter and lens combined, but with shutter-release button on top of the camera body. Besides the B exposure mode it offered a T mode. In this mode the release button had to be pressed twice, the first time for opening and the second for closing the shutter.
 
The '''Beltica''' was a folding camera for 35mm film, one of the first products of the Eastgerman '''VEB Belca-Werk''', the former plant of '''[[Balda]]-Werk Max Baldeweg''' in Dresden. The distance selection wheel below the camera's optical viewfinder allowed proper vertical parallax correction. Another modern feature was the exposure counter whilst the lens was a traditional construction with folder, shutter and lens combined, but with shutter-release button on top of the camera body. Besides the B exposure mode it offered a T mode. In this mode the release button had to be pressed twice, the first time for opening and the second for closing the shutter.
  

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164255249_a12d3eed67.jpg
Beltica in front of Dom zu Speyer
164271302_d7fac904b1_t.jpg]
depth-of-field-table on
camera's back
196209449_be7625a722_t.jpg
Dom zu Speyer
seen thru Beltica

The Beltica was a folding camera for 35mm film, one of the first products of the Eastgerman VEB Belca-Werk, the former plant of Balda-Werk Max Baldeweg in Dresden. The distance selection wheel below the camera's optical viewfinder allowed proper vertical parallax correction. Another modern feature was the exposure counter whilst the lens was a traditional construction with folder, shutter and lens combined, but with shutter-release button on top of the camera body. Besides the B exposure mode it offered a T mode. In this mode the release button had to be pressed twice, the first time for opening and the second for closing the shutter.

The camera was available with different lens/shutter combinations. The technology of this camera was used as base for the development of Belca's famous stereo-camera Belplasca.

specification:

  • Type: folder camera
  • Maker: VEB Belca-Werk Dresden (East Germany, former Balda-Werk)
  • Year of release: 1951
  • Films: 35mm

Lens/shutter combination spec. 1:

  • Lens: Ludwig "Meritar" 1:2,9/50mm
  • Shutter: Balda-Dresden, or Cludor, speeds 1 - 1/200 sec., aperture downto 1:16

Lens/shutter combination spec. 2:

  • Lens: Carl Zeiss Jena "Tessar" 1:2,8/50mm or 1:3,5/50mm or 1:3,5/5cm
  • Shutter: Cludor, speeds 1 - 1/200 sec., aperture downto 1:22