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Spiegel-Reflex-Kamera (Voigtländer)

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Voigtländer made a series of SLR plate cameras from about 1905. These were at first always sold with a Heliar lens, and named the Heliar Reflex. The cameras were later sold with other makers' lenses, especially in France, and simply named Spiegel-Reflex Kamera. Most of the cameras have a cloth focal-plane shutter, but the last, and smallest, have a Compound leaf shutter, involving a complicated linkage to close the shutter (open for focusing), remove the mirror, and finally fire the shutter when

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