Ricoh 519 Deluxe (FiveOneNine)

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The Ricoh 519 Deluxe (FiveOneNine) is a rangefinder camera with fixed lens made in Japan by Ricoh from 1958. It has a fold-out trigger advance lever attaching to the baseplate.

• Type: Rangefinder camera
• Films: 35mm
• Lens: Riken Optical Rikenon f 1.9 / 4.5cm - 6 elements in 4 groups (Made by Tomioka Optical)
• Shutter: Seikosha MXL, Speeds 1/10 - 1/500 sec + B
• Aperture: 1:1.9 - 1:16
• Exposure: Light Value system with external light meter (The Light Value system was first adopted in Japan on the Ricoh 500)
• Focusing: manual focusing with help of coupled rangefinder
• Dimensions: 140mm x 83mm x 67mm
• Weight: 670 g

Links

• Ricoh 519 user manual at Butkus.org

In Japanese:

• Ricoh 519 Deluxe on the Ricoh Official Website Camera List

In French:

• Ricoh FiveOneNine at Flickr
• FiveOneNine on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand