Stereax
The Stereax is a strut-folding stereo plate camera, made by Nettel Camerawerk in Sontheim in southern Germany, from about 1909, and later by Contessa-Nettel.
Nettel cameras
Nettel made the Stereax in two plate sizes; 4.5x10.7 cm[1] and 6x13 cm. Both have a focal-plane shutter with speeds up to 1/1200 second, which is self-capping (like that of the Deckrullo-Nettel). The 6x13 cm camera has a folding wire-frame viewfinder; the smaller model has a folding optical finder (according to McKeown[2]). The 4.5x10.7 cm camera also has a front cover-flap, which opens like a folding bed (but does not support the lens board). Like other Nettel cameras, focusing is by varying the strut extension, but on this model, this is done by a knob on the lens standard, not on the camera body. The 6x13 cm camera has the normal Nettel focusing mechanism, with the struts adjusted from the camera body, and with the end of one strut forming the pointer of a focus scale in a slot in the top of the camera.[2] The 6x13 cm camera can be arranged for panoramic pictures, using the whole plate, as well as for stereo, and the wire frame finder is usable for both formats.
The cameras were available with a range of different lenses, including Nettel's own Nettel Anastigmats, and Carl Zeiss Tessars.
Notes
- ↑ 4.5x10.7 cm Stereax with CZJ 6.5 cm f/4.5 Tessar lenses, sold at the May 2003 Westllicht Photographica Auction.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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). p.216 and 715.
