![]() It is a rather rare camera, illustrated by the fact that a Google search showed more links to auction houses than to eBay. One could easily believe this was build twenty years later. It was fully featured with frame counter (up till 80!), body-mounted shutter release and double exposure prevention. It was one of the first cameras to be made from bakelite, preceding for instance the Argus A and Coronet Midget. It was small and handsome, looking more modern that its age suggests. It made 24x18 mm exposures on 35 mm film. The Korelle K was a bakelite half-frame camera introduced around 1932. The company was founded in 1921 but most camera models were made in the 1930s. Kochmann was a small camera company from Dresden probably best known for its Korelle folding cameras and the Reflex Korelle, a medium format SLR. The benefit of the Ernemann configuration is that the camera is one unit, which is more sturdy and ensures a consistent distance between lens and film plane. The way it hinges was quite unusual, for most box cameras one pulled out the film part from the back. I intended to do the same, but after cleaning it up I felt bad about peeling the leather off, as it was in such good condition, so now I am stuck with it as it is.Īn Ernemann Box opened up. Admittedly, this was after seeing a beautiful wooden box camera which was an Ernemann Box from which the leather had been removed and had been polished and lacquered. I am not a great fan of box cameras, and this Ernemann Box is in fact the only one I've bought specifically. Ernemann was amalgamated into the new company Zeiss Ikon in 1926. It was also famous for its tower, the Ernemannturm, which was a famous landmark in Dresden and became the well-known logo of VEB Pentacon in the 1950s. The company was most well known for its fast (and rather large) lenses, such as the magnificent 125 mm f/1.8 Ernostar mounted on its Ermanox plate camera. Here follow various other non-folding cameras in my collection that don't have their own page, in somewhat arbitrary but roughly chronological order.Įrnemann was a camera manufacturer in Dresden, one of the camera hotspots in the 20th century. ![]()
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