Metharette
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The Metharette is a strut-folding camera made by the German company Camera-Werk Merkel Tharandt from about 1931.[1] It makes 3x4cm images on 127 type rollfilm. Some examples have a folding reverse-Galilean viewfinder instead of the frame finder of the example pictured here.
McKeown notes that the camera was sold under different names.[1] He shows several examples:
- Megor (rebadged for Meyer and fitted with a Meyer lens)
- Hertie
- Venus (or perhaps Nova, or perhaps Gioia: rebadged for Salmoiraghi and fitted with that firm's lens; another source states that the lens is the Venus, and the camera is named Nova.[2] Another again shows what is plainly a Metharette, with the leatherette impressed 'Salmoiraghi', and names the camera Gioia (joy).[3])
An example was seen at Ebay, badged 'Primula', modified with a Laack Dialytar and Compur shutter with helical focusing ring.[4]
  
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| Metharette 3x4cm, Rodenstock Trinar-Anastigmat 1:4.5 5cm lens, shutter by Gauthier. Images by yalluflex. (Image rights) |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover). p665.
- ↑ Filotecnica Salmoiraghi at Storia della Fotografia.
- ↑ Gioia at Dario Mondonico's Mistermondo site.
- ↑ 'Primula' offered for sale at Ebay (item 111594755563). The seller 'cupog' in Slovakia suggests that the camera may have been modified by a Czech camera maker, perhaps Birnbaum (though the name is hardly similar to others used by Birnbaum).
