Pilot Super
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The Pilot Super (or Pilot 6 Super) is a medium format SLR made by KW in Dresden, Germany, from c.1939-1941[1]. It takes twelve 6x6cm exposures on 120 film, and had a mask for conversion to sixteen 4.5x6 frames. It was a later version of the Pilot 6, using a similar chassis.
The body is roughly cubic, with a bulge on the top rear edge accommodating one of the film spools. There is a folding viewfinder hood on top, with a built-in sports finder and loupe. The knob wind, shutter speed control and release are all on the users right side. Some examples are fitted with an extinction light meter on the viewing hood[2].
The shutter is a guillotine mechanism with 4 speeds, 1/20-1/200 + B, with interchangeable lenses.
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- ↑ McKeown 12th ed, p.585
- ↑ The Retrography example has such a meter; the example pictured seems not to.
Links
- KW cameras at Simon Simonsen's retrography.com includes the Pilot 6
- KW history shows the KW SLRs, by Klaus-Eckard Riess
