Mercury

Univex Mercury I

Univex Mercury II

Mercury II, with flash

The Universal Mercury is a half-frame viewfinder camera with a rotary shutter. It was introduced in 1938. At least some of the Tricor lenses were marked as being made by Wollensak.

Specifications Mercury II

• Type: viewfinder camera
• Manufacturer: Universal Camera Corp. USA
• Year of launch: 1945
• Film: 35mm film, for 65 half size(18×24mm) exposures
• Viewfinder: Galilean type optical finder
• Available Lenses: Tricor F2.7 35mm (coated), Tricor F3.5 35mm (non coated), Hexar f/2, others: 75mm, 125mm
• Shutter: Rotary metal focal plane shutter with speeds T,B,1/20 - 1/1000sec plus F hot synch
• Dimensions: 145×95×60mm
• Weight: 600g

Links

In English:

• Mercury at The Classic Camera
• Mercury II in the Living Image Camera Museum
• Pages of the camera collection by Sylvain Halgand:
  • Mercury CC
  • Mercury CX
• Mercury CC in the Virtual Camera Museum at www.virtualcameramuseum.com
• Reloading Mercury I cameras, an article of the Subclub website
• Cameras from the swing era, including the Mercury, at www.jitterbuzz.com
• English manual for the Mercury (.pdf format) and for the Mercury II at butkus.org's orphan camera site
• Univex Mercury: The American Way, review and design notes in Rick Oleson's website