Robot Luftwaffe Eigentum

"Robot II Luftwaffe Eigentum Black, an outstanding Army Robot Camera.

During the world war II, Otto Berning produced his famous Robot Luftwaffe Eigentum

( Air force property), this was a special production of flight recognized cameras.

This is a beautiful F serial, 4th version of 1942, with Long-long advance knob

(48 exposures) and two holes on top. The F serial comes from the german

word "Flieger" or "Flyer", with the famous Sonnar 7,5 cm lens,

in aluminium body of 1941, a rare war time lens, the most popular lens was the

Tele-Xenar of 7,5 cm, the Biotar 2,0, and the Xenon 1,9 lens. Only a few units of this

versión was fited with the Carl Zeiss 7,5 cm Sonnar.

The camera was used in several German fighter planes like the Messerschmitt BF 109 and 110

and the Focke Wulf 190. In the last one the camera was mounted in a cradle in the right

wing and was connected with the guns. The camera could also be used handheld by the crew

This is a very little master piece of collection. Some research say that 20.000 units

were made."

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