Vito C
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| Vito CLR image by Süleyman Demir (Image rights) |
Vito CD image by Dirk HR Spennemann (Image rights) |
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| Vito C image by Alf Sigaro (Image rights) |
Vito CL image by Alf Sigaro (Image rights) |
The Vito C is a family of 35mm viewfinder camera made in Germany by Voigtländer. It was a continuation of the Vito line, and followed the Vito BL.
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Variants
Several variations of this camera were made:
- Vito C
- Vito CD has an uncoupled light meter.
- Vito CL has a coupled light meter, and the CL Deluxe has a meter needle display in the viewfinder.
- Vito CLR further adds a coupled rangefinder. The top of the CLR camera has a translucent plastic part beside the accessory shoe illuminating the meter needle in the finder.
These cameras have either a 50/2.8 Color Skopar of a 50/2.8 Lanthar lens and are equipped with Pronto, Prontor SVS or Pronto-LK shutter with speed ranging form B-1 to 500.
It was initially produced in a round-ended body style was produced between 1960 & 1967, after which a squarer-ended body was made.[1]
Version by Balda
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| Balda Voigtländer Vito C image by Paulo Moreira (Image rights) |
Around 1980, a series of ABS plastic bodied Vito cameras was introduced, with fold down front, similar to the Minox 35 and made by Balda, also sold as the Balda C series.
Notes
Links
in English:
- Vito C user manual (pdf) at Butkus.org
- Voigtlander Vito CSR Meter Repair by Margaret at kyphoto.com via Internet Archive: The Wayback Machine
In French:
- Vito C, Vito CD, Vito CL, Vito CLR (user manual), Vito CSR on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand
