Re: [photo-3d] Re: evolving technology (was manual fed)

[Brian Reynolds <reynolds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Canter wrote:
> In Digest 296 Brian Reynolds writes, in part:
> 
> << To be fair to the Realist most cameras of that time period do not
>  automatically cock the shutter or have double exposure prevention.
>  You were expected to pay attention to what you were doing. >>
> 
> Most 35mm cameras of the '50's (and certainly all "quality" cameras,
> like Leica, Contax, Nikon, Canon) had both of those features.  Even
> many pre-war designs had them...thats what was "automatic" about the
> Rollieflex: it automaticly tensioned the shutter as you wound the
> film.
> 

Actually I was thinking of cameras other than 35mm.  Many "quality"
cameras did not have automatically cocking shutters.  For example, the
various Graflex, Linhof and other large format press and technical
cameras (still in use at the time by many newspapers) , and many
non-Rollei TLRs (and other forms of Medium Format cameras).  Although
there were self-cocking press shutters for the press cameras I haven't
seen many available on the used market, and the better lenses (e.g.,
the Kodak Ektar and Commercial Ektar lenses) were not mounted in press
shutters.

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