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Voigtländer Brillant bakelite V6 camera
1947 - 6x6 Film - Compur Rapid shutter 1/300 - Voigtar 4.5/75mm - Bakelite camera. Sports finder. Accessory compartment on the left side of the camera.
Depth of field chart on the left side of the hinged cover.
Aperture chart on the back of the hinged cover and not in the compartment for accessories.
The camera has a larger logo than on prewar models : the Voigtlander name is close to the rivets.
The Brillant camera range is very large.It can be roughly split in two parts:
1- metal cameras (from 1932 to 1937) The serial number begins with a letter (D-1932 to J-1937)
2- bakelite cameras (from 1937 to 1951) No serial number
These cameras have a large non focusing lens, actually a brilliant finder.
The Brillant S (or Focusing Brillant) is the only one with a finder lens coupled with the taking lens.
A large variety of lenses and shutters were fitted on these cameras.
The metal cameras even had the front panel written in different languages :
German, English (their name became "Brilliant"), Czech, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish.
Voigtländer is the world’s oldest optics company, with a history dating back to the 1700s. Voigtländer had great success as both a maker of fine plate cameras and lenses. In 1915, the company would outgrow it’s original factory in Braunschweig and would move to a larger facility on the other side of town. As Voigtländer gained experience making cameras over the next decade, they would experiment with other designs, such as Single Lens Reflex and roll film cameras.
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Voigtländer Brillant bakelite V6 camera
1947 - 6x6 Film - Compur Rapid shutter 1/300 - Voigtar 4.5/75mm - Bakelite camera. Sports finder. Accessory compartment on the left side of the camera.
Depth of field chart on the left side of the hinged cover.
Aperture chart on the back of the hinged cover and not in the compartment for accessories.
The camera has a larger logo than on prewar models : the Voigtlander name is close to the rivets.
The Brillant camera range is very large.It can be roughly split in two parts:
1- metal cameras (from 1932 to 1937) The serial number begins with a letter (D-1932 to J-1937)
2- bakelite cameras (from 1937 to 1951) No serial number
These cameras have a large non focusing lens, actually a brilliant finder.
The Brillant S (or Focusing Brillant) is the only one with a finder lens coupled with the taking lens.
A large variety of lenses and shutters were fitted on these cameras.
The metal cameras even had the front panel written in different languages :
German, English (their name became "Brilliant"), Czech, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish.
Voigtländer is the world’s oldest optics company, with a history dating back to the 1700s. Voigtländer had great success as both a maker of fine plate cameras and lenses. In 1915, the company would outgrow it’s original factory in Braunschweig and would move to a larger facility on the other side of town. As Voigtländer gained experience making cameras over the next decade, they would experiment with other designs, such as Single Lens Reflex and roll film cameras.