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Janua

1949·Camera

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The Janua is a Leica copy, made by San Giorgio in Genoa in about 1949.[1] It is a coupled-rangefinder camera for 24x36 mm pictures on 35 mm film. It has a focal-plane shutter with speeds 1 - 1/1000 second, plus 'B', all set with a single speed dial on the top housing.[2] According to Dario Mondonico, the shutter was not at first synchronised for flash; synchronisation, with a PC socket on the top, and a cold shoe, was standard only on late cameras, known as the Janua S; earlier cameras could be

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