Voigtländer Bijou
The Bijou is a single-lens camera for 4.5x6 cm plates, made in about 1908 by Voigtländer; it is the first SLR in such a small format.[1] It is broadly box-shaped, with a slight taper toward the front. It has a ground-glass focusing screen in the top of the camera, within a folding leather hood. Unlike many larger box-form SLR cameras, it has helical focusing in the lens mount, rather than a bellows.
McKeown lists the Bijou with Voigtländer's own 105 mm f/4.5 Heliar. An example was offered for sale at Westlicht with a Ross 4-inch f/4 Wide Angle Xpres, probably not the camera's original lens.[2] The camera has a rotating back (to allow both horizontal and vertical photographs) and the lens is mounted in a rising front.
McKeown states that in Germany, the camera was not called Bijou, but simply Miniatur-Reflex-Kamera.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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). p954.
- ↑ Bijou offered for sale at the 21st Westlicht Photographica Auction, on 23 May 2012.
