Voigtländer Scheren-Camera
The Scheren-Camera ('scissor-camera') is a camera made by Voigtländer in about 1903, for 9x12 cm plates. It has a long bellows extension,[1] supported by scissor-struts.[2] The bellows extends in front of and behind a central body, which carries the focusing control, a top-mounted Newton-type viewfinder and 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;[2] an illustration in a report of the camera when new suggests the FP shutter is a removable module.[3] Otherwise the camera was available with a shuttered lens.
There is a focus scale in the left hand side of the rear body,[2] and an extensible cloth band mounted on the central body, links the focusing mechanism with the lens-board, to adjust it for the focal length of the lens fitted.[3]
Notes
- ↑ In fact, only about 30 cm, or double-extension, but long for a camera without a bed.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Scheren-Camera with Collinear III 183 mm f/6.8, offered for sale at Camera Auction 26, on 22 November 2014, by Westlicht Photographica Auction; the auction listing shows the camera with its listing in a contemporary catalogue.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Aarland, Dr. G. (1903) Voigtländer-Scheren-Camera. In: Photographische Mitteilungen: Halbmonatschrift für Amateur-Photographie (Photographic Materials: 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 Internet Archive; available for viewing and download in various formats including PDF (26 MB). Text in German.
