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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 Wirgin, Heinrich, Max Wirgin, 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) wit ...
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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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