Fama II
The Fama II is a viewfinder camera for 35mm film, made in about 1950 by Cornu of Paris. The camera has a cast-aluminium body, with a 39mm lens-mount. The body does not contain a shutter: it uses lenses mounted in a shutter.[1] The standard lens is a 50mm f/2.8 Berthiot Flor, in a shutter also named Fama on its face-plate, offering speeds 1 - 1/300 second, plus 'B'.[1] Notes at Collection Appareils suggest the shutter is Cornu's own Coronto.[2]
The viewfinder is a superstructure fastened to the top of the camera. More than one pattern of viewfinder has been seen, with different provision to correct the VF for the different lenses. One pattern has a hinged mask to reduce the VF view for the telephoto lens:[3] another has sliding masks inside the VF.[4] Some examples, aparently older, have a simple VF with no allowance for non-standard lenses.[5]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fama II sold with a three-lens kit; 3.5cm f/3.5 Berthiot Flor, 50mm f/2.8 Flor, and 90mm f/4.5 Tele-Ontor; all three lenses are in identical 'Fama' shutters; at the 43rd Leitz Photographica Auction, in November 2023.
- ↑ Technical notes on a Fama II at Collection Appareils.
- ↑ Fama II with simple viewfinder with telephoto mask, at Collection Appareils.
- ↑ Fama II with more sophisticated masked viewfinder, also at Collection Appareils.
- ↑ Fama II with simple viewfinder and f/3.5 Ontor standard lens in shutter to 1/200 second, also at Collection Appareils.
