Compur

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The Compur is a long-lived series of leaf shutters that were made by the German company F. Deckel, based in Munchen. The Compur appeared in 1912 and was based on the Compound, but was equipped with a geared slow speed governor instead of a piston and cylinder device.

Bibliography

• Kamera no mekanizumu sono I: "Hai! Chīzu" Shunkan o torae-tsuzukeru shattā-ten (カメラのメカニズム・そのⅠ・「ハイ！チーズ」瞬間をとらえ続けるシャッター展, Camera mechanism, part 1 "Cheese!" Exhibition of instant taking shutters). Tokyo: JCII Camera Museum, 2002. (Exhibition catalogue, no ISBN number)

Links

• A discussion of the postwar Compur-Rapid and Synchro-Compur models in a page by Andrew Yue about the Agfa Isolette
• Repair notes of a rimset Compur and of a Compur-Rapid at Daniel Mitchell's camera site
• Synchro-Compur servicing at Roland and Caroline's website
• Compur shutters at S.K. Grimes

Shunkan o torae-tsuzukeru shattā-ten, p. 6.