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The '''Scheren-Camera''' ('scissor-camera') is a camera made by [[Voigtländer]] in about 1903, for 9x12 cm plates. It has a long bellows extension,<ref>In fact, only about 30 cm, or double-extension, but long for a camera without a bed.</ref> supported by scissor-struts.<ref name=W>[https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Voigtlaender-Scheren-Camera/AI-26-31101 Scheren-Camera] with Collinear III 183 mm f/6.8, sold at the [https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Cameras/Past-Auctions/Auction-26/ 26th Westlicht Photographica Auction] (now Leitz Photographica Auction), on 22 November 2014; the auction listing shows the camera with its listing in a contemporary catalogue.</ref> The bellows extends in front of and behind a central body, so the camera stays well-balanced on a tripod as the bellows is extended.<ref name=McK>{{McKeown12}}, p 960.</ref> This central body carries the focusing control, a top-mounted [[Viewfinder#Newton finder|Newton-type viewfinder]] and a bubble level. The rear body, carrying the focusing screen or plate-holder, may incorporate a focal-plane shutter; the camera was offered with or without it in Voigtländer's catalogue.<ref name=W/> Otherwise the camera could be had with a shuttered lens, and the FP shutter was available as a removable accessory for that camera.<ref name=McK/> An illustration in a report of the camera when new shows the camera with a removable shutter module.<ref name=PM>Aarland, Dr. G. (1903) [https://archive.org/stream/photographische02photgoog#page/n317/mode/1up Voigtländer-Scheren-Camera]. In: ''Photographische Mitteilungen: Halbmonatschrift für Amateur-Photographie'' (Photographic Correspondence: fortnightly for amateur photography), P. Hanneke, editor. Gustav Schmidt Verlag, Berlin, 1903, pp177-8. In the library of Harvard University, digitised by Google and archived at [https://archive.org Internet Archive]. Text in German.</ref>

An extensible cloth band mounted on the central body, and looped round a peg on the front standard, acts as a focus scale, with marks for several focal lengths.<ref name=McK/>


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[[Category:German 9x12]]
[[Category:Voigtländer|Scheren-Camera]]
[[Category:S|Scheren-Camera Voigtländer]]
[[Category:1900-1905]]