Type 127 film camera Focus manual | Lens mount fixed collapsible lens Exposure manual | |
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The Kolibri 523/18 was a camera by Zeiss Ikon, made between 1930 and 1935.
The Kolibri took sixteen 3x4cm exposures on 127 film. The camera featured a collapsible lens tube and was arranged in a vertical format, with a flip-up viewfinder on the top. On the right-hand side was the winding knob and a tripod bush; there was another tripod bush at the bottom. The lens had small "feet" on either side, so the camera would stand horizontally, and a strut could be fixed below the lens to balance the camera vertically. There were two red windows on the back, for the small image format. A supplementary close-up lens was available, called Proxar, which allowed focusing down to 30 cm.
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Zeiss Ikon Kolibri Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA