Bergheil
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| Voigtländer Bergheil, a versatile folding camera for film plates |
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| Voigtländer Bergheil 6x9 |
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| the collapsed Bergheil |
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| the camera was made for exchangeable lens/shutter-units, mountable like modern bayonet lenses |
The Voigtländer Bergheil was a folding camera for the ambitious amateur. It was made from 1911 to 1930 by Voigtländer in Braunschweig. Models for different film formats were available of this versatile folding plate dropbed camera. It had been made for exchangeable lens/shutter-units. Many of the lenses were of the excellent Heliar-type, invented in 1900 by Dr. Hans Harting for Voigtländer, often combined with shutters of the leading brand Compur. It had a brilliant finder for vertical and a sports finder for horizontal images.
Links
- Voigtländer Bergheil on [www.ukcamera.com]
