Durst Automatica 01
Durst Automatica 1956-63. Possibly the best looking camera ever made. Form, proportion, materials, finishes, fonts...it absolutely embodies the era. It's Hepburn and Peck on a Vespa. It's Bertone, Tano Festa and Valentino all in one. A Latin counterpoint to Leica and Dieter Rams. It doesn't need to be interesting under the skin but it is, being the world's first 35mm aperture priority camera and doing it pneumatically. The 4th and final camera produced by enlarger-maker Durst SA of Bolzano up near the Italian Alps. They had a thing for pneumatic escapements - the Durst 66 was another example and both of mine work well today, 60 years on.
Durst Automatica 01
Durst Automatica 1956-63. Possibly the best looking camera ever made. Form, proportion, materials, finishes, fonts...it absolutely embodies the era. It's Hepburn and Peck on a Vespa. It's Bertone, Tano Festa and Valentino all in one. A Latin counterpoint to Leica and Dieter Rams. It doesn't need to be interesting under the skin but it is, being the world's first 35mm aperture priority camera and doing it pneumatically. The 4th and final camera produced by enlarger-maker Durst SA of Bolzano up near the Italian Alps. They had a thing for pneumatic escapements - the Durst 66 was another example and both of mine work well today, 60 years on.