Hi David,
When my sons were in their teens, and into exploring caves, I rigged the
Mercury II with a cheap flash gun (bulbs), and they took it into the
caves with them.
It still works, though scanning the single-frame negatives is a real
challenge. :-(
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 7/2/2015 12:52 PM, David Young wrote:
Thanks, Jim, for that information! I have an old Mercury 1, and had always
wondered why it used the style of shutter that it did. Now, I know!;
David.
Some of you might be able to recall, as I do, street photographers who
snapped your photo on city sidewalks and then offered to sell you copies
of the image. Their favorite camera was the Universal Mercury,
introduced in 1938, or the Mercury II, introduced in 1945. A half-frame
camera with a rotary cinema-type shutter, it produced 72 images on a
36-exposure roll of 35mm film. This was a very rugged camera with a
cast aluminum body and an extremely sharp Tricor 35mm f/2.7 lens,
requiring manual scale focusing with no rangefinder. When properly
focused, the image detail was equivalent to much more expensive cameras
of that era.
http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Mercury+II+from+1945.jpg.html
Comments welcomed, and appreciated.
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Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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