Ernemann Unette
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The Ernemann Unette was a miniature roll film box camera. Ernemann made it around 1925. It was unique as box camera for paper-backed 35mm rollfilm w/o sprocket holes. At the same time Ernemann offered a variant of its folding camera Bob I for that film, with the same exposure frame format 22×33mm. Ernemann missed the chance to make a standard of this format due to its market power, because the offered minature cameras were only offered with poor optics. Thus the Leica Ia that appeared in 1925 set the 35mm film miniature standard.
Specifications
- Type: box camera
- Manufacturer: Ernemann
- Year of launch: 1924
- Film/Frame size: unperforated paper backed 35mm roll film (Sida 26° film was an appropriate brand) / 22×33mm frame
- Lens: 1:12.5 meniscus lens
- Viewfinder: two collapsible frames
- Shutter: Time, Bulb and Instant mode (Z, S and M)
- Aperture: f-stops 12.5 , 18 and 25
The camera was available with a simpler shutter that offered only 3 shutter-mode/aperture combinations (M12.5, Z12.5 and Z25)
Links
- Unette at Pacific rim [1]
- list of cameras showing the simpler version at a "transversal collection" [2]
