Velo-Klapp
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The Velo-Klapp is a strut-folding 9x12 plate camera with a focal-plane shutter, made by Ernemann. The name might refer to the high shutter speeds offered by the camera, or it's speed of use; or the camera's compactness when folded, making it suitable to be taken on bicycle trips. The focal plane shutter makes the Velo-Klapp slightly bulkier and heavier than the Velocam, however, which has only a three-speed front shutter. The Velo-Klapp's shutter gives speeds up to 1/2500 second.[1] It was available with any of several lenses: Ernemann's own f/6.8 Detectiv-Aplanat, or f/6.8 or f/5.5 Doppel-anastigmats, an f/6.8 Goerz Doppel-anastigmat Syntor, or an f/6 Rodenstock Imagonal.[1]
The camera was available with a plate-changing magazine, for twelve 9x12 plates or twenty-four sheets of film in sheaths, a roll-film back, or a film-pack adapter.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Catalogue Ernemann Cameras sind die Besten; Anleitung; Liste No. 91, p.14. The catalogue is undated, but describes the Bob III (1924-26) as new; at Ciné-Ressources.
Links
- Velo-Klapp at Emtus Kamera Nachschlagewerk (Emtu's Camera Reference); text in German; several pictures of an example of the camera, with a 13.5 cm f/8 Steinheil Orthostigmat (not listed in the catalogue cited), and giving a top shutter speed of 1/1000 second.
- US Patent 764375, Photographic shutter, filed 1903 and granted 1904 to Max A. Richter and Heinrich Ernemann AG, very probably describing the shutter used in the Velo-Klapp and other Ernemann strut-folders; at Espacenet, the patent search facility of the European Patent Office.
