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Revision as of 04:58, 30 December 2011
The Paxette cameras were a line of viewfinder and rangefinder cameras made by the Braun company in Nuremberg, Germany in the 1950s. These cameras were of high quality, with excellent optics. Even the viewfinder models (most of the Paxette I models) may be mistaken for rangefinder cameras, as they have a second window in an appropriate place, which is however an extinction meter[1].
The Paxette II and Super Paxette II models had interchangeable lenses. The lenses use an M39 thread mount; however, the cameras have a longer lens register than Leica cameras, largely because they use leaf shutters (of the Prontor family) rather than focal plane shutters, so the lenses are not interchangeable between Paxettes and Leicas. Not all early Paxette lenses are rangefinder coupled. Lenses were made for the Paxettes by several noted lens manufacturers, in lengths from 35mm (moderate wide angle) to 200mm (telephoto).
The Super Paxette line, introduced in 1956, included a coupled rangefinder; some models even had a coupled selenium meter. There were also Paxette SLR models, the Paxette Reflex.
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| Two Paxette II cameras with the lenses removed, showing the leaf shutters image by Mario Groleau (Image rights) |
- Paxette viewfinder and rangefinder
- Braun Paxette section at Retrography.com by Simon Simonsen, Denmark
- Braun Paxette Camera Manuals : Photo-Manuals.com by Ben Squire
- Paxette, Paxette I, Paxette Im, Paxette IIm on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand
- Super Paxette 1b review and cleaning instructions on Dominic's Classic Cameras.
