Hey! Pretty cool. It even has "scene modes". See pages 19-20 of the
Mercury II manual
<http://www.butkus.org/chinon/univex/mercury_ii/mercury_ii.htm>
Chuck Norcutt
On 7/2/2015 1:41 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
Thanks for looking, Charlie. Here is a link that will tell you more
than you probably want to know.
http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Mercury
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 7/2/2015 12:24 PM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
Who made it, Jim? That's one I've not seen before.
Charlie
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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.
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Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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