Mecila
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The Mecila Mag 150 is a film magazine made for TLR cameras. It replaces the hinged camera back, and holds enough film for 150 exposures. It was designed and at first made by Paul Lachaize of Lyon in the early 1950s.[1] Later, Flash-Phot of Paris took over manufacture of the device.
Notes
- ↑ Mecila magazine attached to a Rolleiflex 3.5B, sold at the 21st Westlicht Photographica Auction, in May 2012. Several pictures of the camera and magazine.
Links
- Mecila Mag 150 attached to a Semflex Automatic TLR, sold at the 39th Leitz Photographica Auction.
- US Patent 2819663, Photographic Cameras, filed September 1953 and granted to Paul Lachaize January 1958, describing the magazine; at Espacenet, the patent search facility of the European Patent Office.