Norca (6×9)

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Braun Norca II image by Alf Sigaro (Image rights)

The Norca is a series of folding cameras for 6×9 cm exposures on 120 film, made by Braun of Nuremburg in 1952-56. According to McKeown, Braun originally announced the camera as Norica, but the name was changed so soon that perhaps no cameras were ever made with the name Norica.

Norca I

The first Norca camera, from 1952, has a 105 mm Praxar achromat lens, with two aperture settings (f/8, with a 'cloud' symbol, and f/16, with a 'sun'). the shutter is a two-speed Gauthier one, with speeds 1/25 and 1/75 second, plus 'B'. Despite its simplicity, the shutter is synchronised for flash (and there is a cold shoe on the camera body). There is a shutter release on the camera body, and a cable release socket on the shutter itself.

The camera has a reverse-Galilean viewfinder.

Norca II

The Norca II, also from 1952 has a better lens, either a Steinheil Cassar or an Isco Gotar, both 105 mm f/6.3, and a Vario shutter, with speeds 1/25, 1/75 and 1/200 second, plus 'B'. This camera has folding blinds in the film chamber to use it for sixteen 4.5×6 cm exposures. The viewfinder is also adjustable for half-frame use.