The 1938 Univex Mercury was an unusual
half frame 35 mm camera from
The Universal Camera Corporation
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It was the first camera with any kind of
hot shoe
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connector, and had a distinctive profile due to a large dome protruding from the top of the main body to accommodate its 1/1000 sec
rotary disc shutter
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[S. F. Spira with Eaton S. Lothrop, Jr and Jonathan R. Spira. ''The History of Photography as Seen Through the Spira Collection.'' New York, NY: Aperture, 2001 . pp 154, 159-160.]
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