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Voigtländer Alpin Specifications
- Manufacturer: Voigtländer
- Country: Germany
- Years Produced: 1907 - 1929
- Body Type: Metal Folding
- Film Type: Plate 9x12, 10x15
- Lens Type: Multiple
- Shutter Type: Compound, Koilos 300 or Compur 250
- Flash Type: None
The Voigtländer Alpin are horizontal folding bed plate cameras made from 1907 to 1928. The cameras had double or triple extension bellows. A Teletubus with 2½× magnification could be mounted inside the unfolded camera. Tourists liked the camera because it was quite compact when folded, provided a horizontal format suitable for landscapes and group photographs, and it was made of light metal. It was produced in a wide variety of models each featured a different lens or negative size.
Two main formats were offered, 9x12 and 10x15, the latter for panorama and stereo imagery.
The design of the Voigtländer Alpin influenced other camera manufacturers to create similar designs. A close copy is Rokuoh Sha's' horizontal Lily ( (リリー) offered from 1916 to 1930.
check Neat Lily end date of offereing in my Rokuoh Sha Catalogues.
9x12 format
Version 1, 1907-08
Lens options
Set in Compound or Koilos shutter:
- 120mm
- Collinear f/6.3 120mm
- Dynar f/5.5 120mm
- Triple Anastigmat f/7 120mm
- 135mm
- Collinear f/6.3 135mm
- Dynar f/5.5 135mm
- Triple Anastigmat f/7 135mm
- 150mm
- Dynar f/5.5 150mm
- Triple Anastigmat f/7 150mm
Version 2, 1908-28
The camera has a fold-up Newton finder at the top left, which, when folded down, is flush with the casing. The top of the finder frame has a an apex, while the glass has red cross-hairs etched in. The leather hand strap is at the right hand side of the body.
Lens options
Set in Compound or Koilos shutter:
- 120mm
- Collinear f/6.3 120mm
- Dynar f/5.5 120mm
- Triple Anastigmat f/7 120mm
132mm ?? Kollinear III 6.8/132mm
- 135mm
- 150mm
- Dynar f/5.5 150mm
- Triple Anastigmat f/7 150mm
- Varied
- Collinear Satzanastigmat with 6 different focal lengths
10x15 format
Version 1, 1908-26
Lens options
Set in Compound or Koilos shutter:
- 165mm
- Dynar f/5.5 165mm
- Heliar f/4.5 165mm
- 180mm
- Heliar f/4.5 180mm
- 210mm
- Heliar f/4.5 210mm
- Varied
- Collinear Satzanastigmat with 6 different focal lengths
Version 2, 1926-28
Lens options
Set in Compound or Koilos shutter:
- 165mm
- Dynar f/5.5 165mm
- Heliar f/4.5 165mm
- 180mm
- Heliar f/4.5 180mm
- 210mm
- Heliar f/4.5 210mm
- Varied
- Collinear Satzanastigmat with 6 different focal lengths
10x15 format Stereo
The stereo version became available in 1911 and was offered until the end of production in 1928.
Lens options:
- 2x Collinear f/6.3 105mm Stereo Compur shutter
- 3x Collinear f/6.3 105mm Stereo Compur shutter
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Notes and References
- ↑ Catalogue Manufacture Français d'Armes et Cycles de sant-Ètienne 1908, p. 587; 1909, p. 475; 1910, p. 526 (depicted in catalogue section of the Alpin entry at Sylvain Halgand's site.
- ↑ Catalogue Manufacture Français d'Armes et Cycles de sant-Ètienne 1908, p. 587; 1909, p. 475; 1910, p. 526(depicted in catalogue section of the Alpin entry at Sylvain Halgand's site.
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