Difference between revisions of "Belca Beltica"
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| − | || [http://www.flickr.com/photos/89864432@N00/196209449/ http://static.flickr.com/75/196209449_be7625a722_t.jpg]<br/><small>Dom zu Speyer<br/>seen thru Beltica< | + | || [http://www.flickr.com/photos/89864432@N00/196209449/ http://static.flickr.com/75/196209449_be7625a722_t.jpg]<br/><small>Dom zu Speyer<br/>seen thru Beltica</small> |
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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 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
