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Wirgin
Wirgin was a German company which is still known for its brands Wirgin and Edixa, and for its camera types like the Edina, the Edinex or the Gewirette. It was based in the Hessian capital Wiesbaden and made a line of quite inexpensive 35mm SLRs from the 1950s to the 1970s, including the Edixa Reflex and Edixa-Mat Reflex. Wirgin was West Germany's main producer of SLRs with focal plane shutter. It also produced some of the lenses for its cameras, among them several M42 screw mount lenses. Wirgin was founded by the brothers Heinrich, Max and Josef Wirgin in 1920. They introduced their first distinctive camera in 1927, the ''Edinex'', which they produced also as ''Adrette'' for Adox. In 1934 the company surprised the market with a very small viewfinder camera for type 127 film, the Gewirette. From the mid-1930s it also made Edinex 35mm viewfinder cameras. These came equipped with Wirgin Gewironar lens and Compur shutter or Culminar lens (alike Tessar) with Prontor shutter. I ...
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Wirgin
Wirgin was a German company which is still known for its brands Wirgin and Edixa, and for its camera types like the Edina, the Edinex or the Gewirette. It was based in the Hessian capital Wiesbaden and made a line of quite inexpensive 35mm SLRs from the 1950s to the 1970s, including the Edixa Reflex and Edixa-Mat Reflex. Wirgin was West Germany's main producer of SLRs with focal plane shutter. It also produced some of the lenses for its cameras, among them several M42 screw mount lenses. Wirgin was founded by the brothers Heinrich, Max and Josef Wirgin in 1920. They introduced their first distinctive camera in 1927, the ''Edinex'', which they produced also as ''Adrette'' for Adox. In 1934 the company surprised the market with a very small viewfinder camera for type 127 film, the Gewirette. From the mid-1930s it also made Edinex 35mm viewfinder cameras. These came equipped with Wirgin Gewironar lens and Compur shutter or Culminar lens (alike Tessar) with Prontor shutter. I ...
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Wirgin Reflex
Wirgin was a German company which is still known for its brands Wirgin and Edixa, and for its camera types like the Edina, the Edinex or the Gewirette. It was based in the Hessian capital Wiesbaden and made a line of quite inexpensive 35mm SLRs from the 1950s to the 1970s, including the Edixa Reflex and Edixa-Mat Reflex. Wirgin was West Germany's main producer of SLRs with focal plane shutter. It also produced some of the lenses for its cameras, among them several M42 screw mount lenses. Wirgin was founded by the brothers Heinrich, Max and Josef Wirgin in 1920. They introduced their first distinctive camera in 1927, the ''Edinex'', which they produced also as ''Adrette'' for Adox. In 1934 the company surprised the market with a very small viewfinder camera for type 127 film, the Gewirette. From the mid-1930s it also made Edinex 35mm viewfinder cameras. These came equipped with Wirgin Gewironar lens and Compur shutter or Culminar lens (alike Tessar) with Prontor shutter. I ...
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Wirgin Edina
Wirgin was a German company which is still known for its brands Wirgin and Edixa, and for its camera types like the Edina, the Edinex or the Gewirette. It was based in the Hessian capital Wiesbaden and made a line of quite inexpensive 35mm SLRs from the 1950s to the 1970s, including the Edixa Reflex and Edixa-Mat Reflex. Wirgin was West Germany's main producer of SLRs with focal plane shutter. It also produced some of the lenses for its cameras, among them several M42 screw mount lenses. Wirgin was founded by the brothers Heinrich, Max and Josef Wirgin in 1920. They introduced their first distinctive camera in 1927, the ''Edinex'', which they produced also as ''Adrette'' for Adox. In 1934 the company surprised the market with a very small viewfinder camera for type 127 film, the Gewirette. From the mid-1930s it also made Edinex 35mm viewfinder cameras. These came equipped with Wirgin Gewironar lens and Compur shutter or Culminar lens (alike Tessar) with Prontor shutter. I ...
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Heinz Waaske
Heinz Waaske (1924 – 1995) was a German camera designer, notably father of the Rollei 35. Early career Born in Berlin, Heinz Waaske started his career as a precision mechanic apprentice at Telefunken in Sickingenstraße in Berlin, where he studied from 1939 to 1942. After serving in the German army during World War II, being severely wounded and taken prisoner, he joined Krenzin in Berlin-Kreuzberg. There he encountered camera technology for the first time, and developed a great taste for it. For financial reasons, he could not study engineering. He started designing a 16mm miniature camera in his spare time, and sold the prototype in 1948 for 3.000 Marks. Work with Wirgin From 1948, Waaske transferred to the Wirgin brothers company in Wiesbaden. He worked as a precision mechanic and soon rose to head of the prototype workshop, to technical designer, and eventually to chief designer. He first improved the medium format 6x9 cameras, allowing cheaper manufacturing proc ...
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Rollei 35
The Rollei 35 is a 35mm miniature viewfinder camera built by Rollei. The original Rollei 35, when introduced at photokina in 1966, was the smallest existing 135 film camera. The Rollei 35 series remains one of the smallest 35 mm cameras after the Minolta TC-1 and Minox 35. In 30 years, about 2 million Rollei 35 series cameras were manufactured. The Rollei 35 was manufactured by DHW Fototechnik up to 2015, the successor of Franke & Heidecke as small-batch production. The last version is the ''Rollei 35 Classic'', an updated ''Rollei 35 SE''. Technical development Preliminary thoughts In about 1960, when the first subminiature cameras for 16 mm film came to market, Heinz Waaske, chief engineer of German camera maker Wirgin, proposed that the purchasers of the 16 mm subminiature cameras, or even the half-frame Olympus Pen 35 mm cameras, were motivated not by the tiny film format but the size of the cameras. After having already engineered and designed the 16  ...
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Edixa 16M Back Side
Edixa is a brand of camera manufacturer Wirgin Kamerawerk which was based in Wiesbaden, West Germany. The product line included several 35mm cameras and 16mm Edixa 16 subminiature cameras designed by Heinz Waaske from the 1950s to the 1970s. 35mm cameras *Edixa Reflex, with Steinheil Quinon 1.9/55mm, Isco Travegar 2.8/50mm *Edixa-MAT REFLEX *Edixa REX TTL *Universal edixamat cd *Edixa Stereo *Edixa Electronica *Edixa motoric 16mm subminiature cameras *Edixa 16, with Isco Travegar 2.8/25mm lens *Edixa 16M, with Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 2.8/25mm lens *Edixa 16MB, black model of Edixa 16M *Edixa 16U *Franka 16 *alka 16 *Body Alunimiu body with plastic trims。 *Lenses: high-end Edixa 16MB/Edixa 16M uses Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 25mm f/2.8 Tessar 4-element 3-group lens, mid-range Edixa 16 uses Travegar 25mm f/2.8 Tessar lens, the rest uses TRINAR Cooke triplet The Cooke triplet is a photographic lens designed and patented (patent number GB 22,607) in 1893 by Dennis Taylo ...
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Edixa 16M Underside
Edixa is a brand of camera manufacturer Wirgin Kamerawerk which was based in Wiesbaden, West Germany. The product line included several 35mm cameras and 16mm Edixa 16 subminiature cameras designed by Heinz Waaske from the 1950s to the 1970s. 35mm cameras *Edixa Reflex, with Steinheil Quinon 1.9/55mm, Isco Travegar 2.8/50mm *Edixa-MAT REFLEX *Edixa REX TTL *Universal edixamat cd *Edixa Stereo *Edixa Electronica *Edixa motoric 16mm subminiature cameras *Edixa 16, with Isco Travegar 2.8/25mm lens *Edixa 16M, with Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 2.8/25mm lens *Edixa 16MB, black model of Edixa 16M *Edixa 16U *Franka 16 *alka 16 *Body Alunimiu body with plastic trims。 *Lenses: high-end Edixa 16MB/Edixa 16M uses Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 25mm f/2.8 Tessar 4-element 3-group lens, mid-range Edixa 16 uses Travegar 25mm f/2.8 Tessar lens, the rest uses TRINAR Cooke triplet The Cooke triplet is a photographic lens designed and patented (patent number GB 22,607) in 1893 by Dennis Taylo ...
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Edixa 16M Front View
Edixa is a brand of camera manufacturer Wirgin Kamerawerk which was based in Wiesbaden, West Germany. The product line included several 35mm cameras and 16mm Edixa 16 subminiature cameras designed by Heinz Waaske from the 1950s to the 1970s. 35mm cameras *Edixa Reflex, with Steinheil Quinon 1.9/55mm, Isco Travegar 2.8/50mm *Edixa-MAT REFLEX *Edixa REX TTL *Universal edixamat cd *Edixa Stereo *Edixa Electronica *Edixa motoric 16mm subminiature cameras *Edixa 16, with Isco Travegar 2.8/25mm lens *Edixa 16M, with Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 2.8/25mm lens *Edixa 16MB, black model of Edixa 16M *Edixa 16U *Franka 16 *alka 16 *Body Alunimiu body with plastic trims。 *Lenses: high-end Edixa 16MB/Edixa 16M uses Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 25mm f/2.8 Tessar 4-element 3-group lens, mid-range Edixa 16 uses Travegar 25mm f/2.8 Tessar lens, the rest uses TRINAR Cooke triplet The Cooke triplet is a photographic lens designed and patented (patent number GB 22,607) in 1893 by Dennis Taylo ...
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Edixa 16
Edixa is a brand of camera manufacturer Wirgin Kamerawerk which was based in Wiesbaden, West Germany. The product line included several 35mm cameras and 16mm Edixa 16 subminiature cameras designed by Heinz Waaske from the 1950s to the 1970s. 35mm cameras *Edixa Reflex, with Steinheil Quinon 1.9/55mm, Isco Travegar 2.8/50mm *Edixa-MAT REFLEX *Edixa REX TTL *Universal edixamat cd *Edixa Stereo *Edixa Electronica *Edixa motoric 16mm subminiature cameras *Edixa 16, with Isco Travegar 2.8/25mm lens *Edixa 16M, with Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 2.8/25mm lens *Edixa 16MB, black model of Edixa 16M *Edixa 16U *Franka 16 *alka 16 *Body Alunimiu body with plastic trims。 *Lenses: high-end Edixa 16MB/Edixa 16M uses Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 25mm f/2.8 Tessar 4-element 3-group lens, mid-range Edixa 16 uses Travegar 25mm f/2.8 Tessar lens, the rest uses TRINAR Cooke triplet The Cooke triplet is a photographic lens designed and patented (patent number GB 22,607) in 1893 by Dennis Taylo ...
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Edixa Prismaflex LTL
Edixa is a brand of camera manufacturer Wirgin Kamerawerk which was based in Wiesbaden, West Germany. The product line included several 35mm cameras and 16mm Edixa 16 subminiature cameras designed by Heinz Waaske from the 1950s to the 1970s. 35mm cameras *Edixa Reflex, with Steinheil Quinon 1.9/55mm, Isco Travegar 2.8/50mm *Edixa-MAT REFLEX *Edixa REX TTL *Universal edixamat cd *Edixa Stereo *Edixa Electronica *Edixa motoric 16mm subminiature cameras *Edixa 16, with Isco Travegar 2.8/25mm lens *Edixa 16M, with Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 2.8/25mm lens *Edixa 16MB, black model of Edixa 16M *Edixa 16U *Franka 16 *alka 16 *Body Alunimiu body with plastic trims。 *Lenses: high-end Edixa 16MB/Edixa 16M uses Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 25mm f/2.8 Tessar 4-element 3-group lens, mid-range Edixa 16 uses Travegar 25mm f/2.8 Tessar lens, the rest uses TRINAR Cooke triplet The Cooke triplet is a photographic lens designed and patented (patent number GB 22,607) in 1893 by Dennis Taylo ...
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Edixa Reflex-B Body Front
Edixa is a brand of camera manufacturer Wirgin Kamerawerk which was based in Wiesbaden, West Germany. The product line included several 35mm cameras and 16mm Edixa 16 subminiature cameras designed by Heinz Waaske from the 1950s to the 1970s. 35mm cameras *Edixa Reflex, with Steinheil Quinon 1.9/55mm, Isco Travegar 2.8/50mm *Edixa-MAT REFLEX *Edixa REX TTL *Universal edixamat cd *Edixa Stereo *Edixa Electronica *Edixa motoric 16mm subminiature cameras *Edixa 16, with Isco Travegar 2.8/25mm lens *Edixa 16M, with Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 2.8/25mm lens *Edixa 16MB, black model of Edixa 16M *Edixa 16U *Franka 16 *alka 16 *Body Alunimiu body with plastic trims。 *Lenses: high-end Edixa 16MB/Edixa 16M uses Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 25mm f/2.8 Tessar 4-element 3-group lens, mid-range Edixa 16 uses Travegar 25mm f/2.8 Tessar lens, the rest uses TRINAR Cooke triplet The Cooke triplet is a photographic lens designed and patented (patent number GB 22,607) in 1893 by Dennis Taylo ...
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Wirgin Edixa
Edixa is a brand of camera manufacturer Wirgin Kamerawerk which was based in Wiesbaden, West Germany. The product line included several 35mm cameras and 16mm Edixa 16 subminiature cameras designed by Heinz Waaske from the 1950s to the 1970s. 35mm cameras *Edixa Reflex, with Steinheil Quinon 1.9/55mm, Isco Travegar 2.8/50mm *Edixa-MAT REFLEX *Edixa REX TTL *Universal edixamat cd *Edixa Stereo *Edixa Electronica *Edixa motoric 16mm subminiature cameras *Edixa 16, with Isco Travegar 2.8/25mm lens *Edixa 16M, with Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 2.8/25mm lens *Edixa 16MB, black model of Edixa 16M *Edixa 16U *Franka 16 *alka 16 *Body Alunimiu body with plastic trims。 *Lenses: high-end Edixa 16MB/Edixa 16M uses Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 25mm f/2.8 Tessar 4-element 3-group lens, mid-range Edixa 16 uses Travegar 25mm f/2.8 Tessar lens, the rest uses TRINAR Cooke triplet The Cooke triplet is a photographic lens designed and patented (patent number GB 22,607) in 1893 by Dennis Taylo ...
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