Spektaretta
The Spektareta is a camera that makes colour images by a colour-separation method: it makes three simultaneous exposures through red, green and blue filters, onto monochrome 35 mm film. The camera was made in 1939[1] in Prerov, in what was then Czechoslovakia, by Optikotechna, the company which was nationalised as Meopta shortly after the Second World War. The design of the Spektareta recalls a cine camera.[2]
The lens is rather long: a 70 mm f/2.9 Spektar, with helical unit focusing down to one metre. The shutter is a Compur, with speeds 1 - 1/250 second, plus 'B', and with a delayed action (self-timer).
On the left side of the camera (considering it upright with the handle at the top, when it looks most like a cine camera) is a rather bulky telescopic finder; this has dioptric adjustment in the eyepiece. On the other side of the camera there is a folding frame finder, with parallax error correction by an adjustment of the rear eyepiece. There is also a frame counter (this counts to 12).
Notes
- ↑ 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). p761; McKeown lists the camera as Spektareta (with one 't'), but the name on the camera at Westlicht is plainly spelt with two.
- ↑ Spektaretta sold at the November 2011 Westlicht Photographica Auction in Vienna.
