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* [http://www.lausch41.com/vitessa.htm Vitessa] at [http://www.lausch.com/kameras.htm Peter Lausch's camera site] | * [http://www.lausch41.com/vitessa.htm Vitessa] at [http://www.lausch.com/kameras.htm Peter Lausch's camera site] | ||
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| − | * [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/voigtlander/html/voigtlander_vitessa_125.php Vitessa 125], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/voigtlander/html/voigtlander_vitessa_N134.php Vitessa N], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/voigtlander/html/voigtlander_vitessa_L133_140.php Vitessa L] | + | * [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/voigtlander/html/voigtlander_vitessa_125.php Vitessa 125], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/voigtlander/html/voigtlander_vitessa_500ae.php Vitessa 500 AE], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/voigtlander/html/voigtlander_vitessa_N134.php Vitessa N], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/voigtlander/html/voigtlander_vitessa_L133_140.php Vitessa L], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/voigtlander/html/voigtlander_vitessa_T.php Vitessa T], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/zeiss/html/zeiss_vitessa_500s.php Vitessa 500 S], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/zeiss/html/zeiss_vitessa_126cs.php Vitessa 126 CS] on [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/francais.php www.collection-appareils.fr] by Sylvain Halgand |
In Japanese: | In Japanese: | ||
* [http://www.cameraguild.jp/voigtlander/vitessa/vitessa.htm Vitessa museum] at [http://www.cameraguild.jp/voigtlander/index.htm Office Heliar] | * [http://www.cameraguild.jp/voigtlander/vitessa/vitessa.htm Vitessa museum] at [http://www.cameraguild.jp/voigtlander/index.htm Office Heliar] | ||
Revision as of 08:17, 9 March 2009
The Vitessa was an innovative 35mm folding rangefinder camera made by Voigtländer in the 1950s. The folding bed was replaced by a barn-door assembly, the focusing was operated by the user's right thumb via a wheel on the back of the top plate, with a distance dial (and depth-of-field scale) set into the top plate. The film advance and shutter cocking were operated with a large plunger rod pointing out of the top plate, that could be retracted when the camera was folded.
It suffered a number of small variations during its production. The very first models did not have strap lugs nor automatic parallax correction. The most expensive models had a 50mm f/2 Ultron, the others a 50mm f/3.5 or f/2.8 Color-Skopar. They all had a Compur-Rapid or Synchro Compur shutter to 1/500. The later models had an uncoupled selenium meter.
The folding Vitessa was replaced by the rigid Vitessa T, a camera based on the same body but without the barn-door and with interchangeable lenses.
At the end of the 1960s, Zeiss Ikon / Voigtländer produced a series of compact 35mm cameras called the Vitessa 500, and some 126 film cameras called the Vitessa 126, that are both discussed elsewhere.
Links
General links
In English:
- Vitessa at Innovative Cameras, by Massimo Bertacchi
- Vitessa and Vitessa T at Retrography.com by Simon Simonsen, Denmark
In German:
- Vitessa and Vitessa T pages at Dietrich Drescher's Voigtländer website
- Vitessa at Peter Lausch's camera site
In French:
- Vitessa 125, Vitessa 500 AE, Vitessa N, Vitessa L, Vitessa T, Vitessa 500 S, Vitessa 126 CS on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand
In Japanese:
