Thanks, Jim, for that information! I have an old Mercury 1, and had always
wondered why it used the style of shutter that it did. Now, I know!;
David.
> Some of you might be able to recall, as I do, street photographers who
> snapped your photo on city sidewalks and then offered to sell you copies
> of the image. Their favorite camera was the Universal Mercury,
> introduced in 1938, or the Mercury II, introduced in 1945. A half-frame
> camera with a rotary cinema-type shutter, it produced 72 images on a
> 36-exposure roll of 35mm film. This was a very rugged camera with a
> cast aluminum body and an extremely sharp Tricor 35mm f/2.7 lens,
> requiring manual scale focusing with no rangefinder. When properly
> focused, the image detail was equivalent to much more expensive cameras
> of that era.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Mercury+II+from+1945.jpg.html
>
> Comments welcomed, and appreciated.
>
> --
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
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