Brooks-Plaubel Veriwide 100
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| ad by Burleigh Brooks, ca. 1959/60 (Image rights) |
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| Brooks-Plaubel Veriwide 100 panorama camera image by Noelas (Image rights) |
The Veriwide 100 is a medium format panoramic camera from Brooks in cooperation with Plaubel, and released in about 1959. It produces seven 56 x 92mm (6x10) images on a roll of 120 film. A newer model was also available with a similar name called Brooks-Veriwide.
It uses a fixed 47mm f/8 Schneider Super Angulon lens, made from 6 elements in 4 groups. Surrounding the lens is a 40.5mm filter thread. It can focus from 2.3 feet to infinity. It uses a Synchro-compur #00 MXV shutter with speeds of 1 - 1/500 second plus bulb. The aperture is adjusted on the lens via a red small red tab. It has electronic flash sync up to 1/500 second and a bulb mode, the self-timer and sync mode can be adjusted with a green tab.
The "Leitz Veriwide 100 Brooks New York" finder has brightlines for close distances and the body also has a flip up wire frame sport finder on the front of the camera. It can be adjusted for parallax at 2.5, 4.5 and 10 feet.
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| two spirit levels image by Mafate2007 (Image rights) |
There are two different variations of spirit levels depending on camera revision. One revision has two spirit levels on the front of the camera with one on a horizontal and another on a vertical axis, the other a single eye type on top by the shutter release.
