Dallmeyer Dual

The Dallmeyer Dual is a 4.5×6 folding camera, sold in 1931. It has a strange aspect, with vertically oriented barn doors and a lens plate mounted on scissor struts. The lens is a Dallmeyer Dalmac Anastigmat 3"/3.5, and the shutter is a Compur rimset T, B, 1–250 with selftimer. They are mounted on a focusing helical. The metal body is leather covered, there is a folding frame finder and a folding leg with a curved shape.

Serial numbers:

• s/n D109 (eBay auction), lens 143137
• s/n D154 (Christies 11/3/1993, again at Westlicht #9 20/5/2006), lens 143852
• s/n D210 (eBay auction), lens 145891

Bibliography

• British Camera Makers, N. Channing & M. Dunn, ed. Parkland Designs