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Rolf
Joined: 02 May 2009 Posts: 4123 Location: NRW/Germany
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:08 pm Post subject: Wirgin cam |
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Rolf wrote:
Hi,
another cam I bought yesterday is this Wirgin cam. Wirgin was a German manufacturer until 1971. More infomation see Google.
This seems to be a very early cam (between 1924 and 1930). I didn´t find any information about this particular cam.
But due to the shutter release and the time round I believe it is a version before 1930.
Lens is a "Victar" manufactured by E. Ludwig, Lausa-Dresden. It is a Cooke-Triplet type. More information you will find here
http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Ludwig
Here a picture of the cam after some cleaning actions. I will present this cam to my wife because she has a little collection of this type of cams.
Shutter speed and aperture work perfect after 80 years.
_________________ Rolf |
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Nesster
Joined: 24 Apr 2008 Posts: 5883 Location: NJ, USA
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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Nesster wrote:
She cleaned up good, a beauty _________________ -Jussi
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kds315*
Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 16627 Location: Weinheim, Germany
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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kds315* wrote:
very nice, congrats! _________________ Klaus - Admin
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kuuan
Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 4569 Location: right now: Austria
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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kuuan wrote:
wow Rolf, what a beautiful camera, but above all, what a wife!
with this Wirgin my mother took photos during and after WWII,
she had 'inherited' it from her uncle who had bought it before the war
_________________ my photos on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kuuan/collections |
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Rolf
Joined: 02 May 2009 Posts: 4123 Location: NRW/Germany
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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Rolf wrote:
Many thanks Andreas. I´m not unhappy with my wife
Your cam is very nice especially with the story behind. Tried to find your cam on this site
http://www.wirgin.info/
but it seems that the infos there are not complete.
_________________ Rolf |
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kuuan
Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 4569 Location: right now: Austria
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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kuuan wrote:
congrats again Rolf, a truly rare specimen, must be a gem, your wife
thank you very much for the link Rolf.
The body of 'my' Wirgin, now it's mine ..looks almost identical to that of the 'Presto' from 1939.
They have different lenses though, and from the style of the lettering of 'Deckel-Muenchen' I would think that 'mine' might have been produced just a bit earlier. Also because that uncle had to go to war, from which he did not return, in 1939, and had bought the camera before that.
I should send this photo to that site, better take more photos of it too _________________ my photos on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kuuan/collections |
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