Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
This is another of my voigtlander collection, the Vitessa L
Its a folder
It has a 50mm f/2 lens with a 10 speed synchro-compur shutter.
It is a rangfinder camera and is in many ways quite unusual in its operation.
To release the barn doors depress the shutter button; the doors will pop open revealing the lens, the tall pillar also pops out of the top of the camera!
This pillar is actually the film advance. After a photo is taken, pushing this pillar back into the body of the camera advances the film.
It can actually make for quite fast shooting should it be required.
Setting the camera up to take a photo also takes a little bit of getting used to!
Focusing is done with a wheel that to many might look like a film advance on the back of the camera (top middle/right looking at the back).
To get an accurate exposure, first we set the iso of the film using the little round dial (top right on the back)
The camera has a built in selenium light meter (top left looking at the front).
The meter gives a round number that is based on the selected ISO
That number is then transferred to a dial on the front/bottom left of the lens
This level sets the aperture to the correct shutter speed
The beauty of this system is that when the shutter speed is changed the aperture also changes accordingly. Setting one will automatically set the other based on the light reading it is given!
Focusing can be done using its built in rangefinder, and there is also a DOF scale on the top of the camera for zone focusing! Its all very clever and actually very intuitive once you get to grips with it!
It is also beautifully well made and very nice to use, even despite the slightly foggy finder in mine! There were all sorts of accessories for this camera including a close up attachment a, various filters, a hood and a external viewfinder!
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In case any one is interested these images were taken on my tv table with a nikon d50, 60mm nikon micro lens, sb 900 flash gun and 2 sb-r200's ... ... and some blu-tak
Its a folder
It has a 50mm f/2 lens with a 10 speed synchro-compur shutter.
It is a rangfinder camera and is in many ways quite unusual in its operation.
To release the barn doors depress the shutter button; the doors will pop open revealing the lens, the tall pillar also pops out of the top of the camera!
This pillar is actually the film advance. After a photo is taken, pushing this pillar back into the body of the camera advances the film.
It can actually make for quite fast shooting should it be required.
Setting the camera up to take a photo also takes a little bit of getting used to!
Focusing is done with a wheel that to many might look like a film advance on the back of the camera (top middle/right looking at the back).
To get an accurate exposure, first we set the iso of the film using the little round dial (top right on the back)
The camera has a built in selenium light meter (top left looking at the front).
The meter gives a round number that is based on the selected ISO
That number is then transferred to a dial on the front/bottom left of the lens
This level sets the aperture to the correct shutter speed
The beauty of this system is that when the shutter speed is changed the aperture also changes accordingly. Setting one will automatically set the other based on the light reading it is given!
Focusing can be done using its built in rangefinder, and there is also a DOF scale on the top of the camera for zone focusing! Its all very clever and actually very intuitive once you get to grips with it!
It is also beautifully well made and very nice to use, even despite the slightly foggy finder in mine! There were all sorts of accessories for this camera including a close up attachment a, various filters, a hood and a external viewfinder!
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In case any one is interested these images were taken on my tv table with a nikon d50, 60mm nikon micro lens, sb 900 flash gun and 2 sb-r200's ... ... and some blu-tak
