Ferrania Condor
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| Ferrania Condor 1 by Guid-O |
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| Ferrania Condor 1 by Walala Pancho |
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| Ferrania Condor 1 |
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| Condor I by gian_f |
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| Condor I by gian_f |
This camera resembling a Leica, with its three windows in frontage (including two for the rangefinder), was manufactured since 1947 in Florence, then in Milan. It was conceived by Officine Galileo, a manufacturer of optics since many years. Ferrania, hitherto a manufacturer of consumables and bottom-of-the-range cameras joined Galileo to subcontract the manufacture a top-of-the-range camera. Certain models can to be found without the Ferrania inscription.
In spite of certain resemblances to Leica, this Italian camera has a fixed collapsible lens. Its Iscus Rapid shutter is powerful, since it allows speeds to 1/500 second. The lens is Eliog 3,5/5 cm.
references: Ferrania Condor I at Sylvain Halgand's www.collection-appareils.fr
Links
- Ferrania Condor Junior at Sylvain Halgand's www.collection-appareils.fr
- Ferrania Condor 1 on Au fil des images by J.C.Boussat (in French)
