Cocarette
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| Contessa-Nettel's model of 1926 with Tessar image by Kimmo Kulovesi (Image rights) |
The Cocarette was a folding camera for rollfilm. It was one of the first new products of the German camera maker Contessa-Nettel after the merger that led to the foundation of that company in 1919. The Cocarette camera series was continued after Contessa-Nettel itself was merged into the Zeiss-Ikon group. Like many other folding camera types of the 1920s it was available in a variety of configurations. It was made for focusing by shifting the lens assembly forward or backward. Advanced versions were made which allowed vertical lens movements. The cameras had only a reflecting type finder. Contessa-Nettel tried to simplify film loading with an insert that slides into the camera.
Contents
specifications
- Type: viewfinder folding camera
- Manufacturers: Contessa-Nettel, Zeiss-Ikon
- Year of launch: 1919
- Film/frame size: film rolls of type No. 120 for eight 6×9 exposures
examples with normal lens
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| Novar-Anastigmat lens in Sonto shutter image by fulvue, on Flickr (Image rights) |
- Lens: Novar 1:6.3/10.5cm
- Shutter: Derval, speeds 1/25 sec. to 1/100 sec. plus B and T modes
or
- Lens: Nostar 1:6.8/10.5cm
- Shutter: Derval, speeds 1/25 sec. to 1/100 sec. plus B and T modes
example with slow lens
- Lens: Frontar 1:8/12cm
- Shutter: Derval, speeds 1/25 sec. to 1/100 sec. plus B and T modes
example with fast lens
- Lens: Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 1:4.5/105mm
- Shutter: Compur, three modes, speeds 1 sec. to 1/250 sec.
- Extra: Spirit level
links
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- Cocarette with Tessar explained at Flickr.com
- Cocarette and Piccolette at "collectible Cameras" [1]
- Cocarette with Meyer lens at photo.net [2]
- Cocarette and Cocarette Luxus at Pacific Rim camera [3]
- Contessa-Nettel Cocarette at www.collection-appareils.com by Sylvain Halgand
