Mec 16 SB
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| Mec 16 S B image by Mark Verlijsdonk (Image rights) |
The Mec 16 SB is a viewfinder camera for 10x14 mm pictures on 16 mm film in special cartridges. It was made from 1960 by Feinwerktechnik GmbH of Lahr in the Schwarzwald, Germany. It is an improved version of the Mec 16. It differs most importantly in the addition of a built-in Gossen lightmeter: it is the first camera to offer through-the-lens metering.[1] The camera also has a different lens, a 22 mm f/2 Rodenstock Heligon, one stop faster than the Mec 16's f/2.8 Color-Ennit.
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| image by Matthew Rick (Image rights) |
Notes
- ↑ Stated by Martin Kohler in his web article on cameras by Apparate und Kamerabau at his website on 3D photography. Kohler suggests that Dr Eugen Armbruster of AkA moved from that company to Feinwerktechnik, and was probably involved in the development of the Mec cameras.
Links
- Mec 16 and 16 SB at submin.com
- Mec 16 SB user manual at submin.com
- Mec 16 SB sold at auction on 19 November 2011 by Fuller's Fine Art Auction, Philadelphia (listing is at the LiveAuctioneers site); several good pictures of the camera.
- Patents archived at Espacenet, the patent search facility of the European Patent Office:
- German Patent 1773992, Sucheinrichtung für Kameras (Camera Viewfinder), granted to Feinwerktechnik GmbH on 11 September 1958, describing the optical finder in pull-out frame, with framelines, including one for parallax error-correction at close focus.
- German Patent 1810615, Einrichtung an Kameras (Camera mechanism), granted on 28 April 1960 and describing the flash-synchronisation device in the camera.
- German Patent 1820146, Filmkasette für Rollfilmkameras, granted 20 October 1960 and describing a rather simple film cassette.
