Welta: Reflekta II Medium order Format 6x6cm exposures 1949-1950. 120 film, TLR camera

The Reflekta II is a simple but very interesting twin-lens reflex camera. Its history is a good example of the agitated times in the German photographic industry between the 1930s and the 50s.

Specifications
Camera: Reflekta II
Type: TLR
Produced c 1945-50? Welta Kamera Werke for Peerless Camera
Film type 120
Picture size: 6cm x 6cm
Weight 1lb, 14.2oz (856.2g)
Taking Lens : E.Ludwig Meritar f3.5 75mm (coated)
Viewer Lens : E.Ludwig Meritar f3.5 75mm (coated)
Filter Size
Focal range 3.6′ to infinity
Shutter Cludor
Shutter speeds B, 1/10 – 1/200
Viewfinder TLR
Exposure meter none
Accessory shoe, PC sync (syncs at all speeds)

ITEM CONDITION
In good working. The lenses are clean, no dust, no scratches and fungus. Focusing works. There is dust on the viewfinder lens. The viewfinder mirror is cloudy and needs cleaning. You can only focus easily on a clear day.
The camera has been showing signs of exploitation for over 70 years.

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DETAILS
Focusing is done by a lever under the taking lens. The framecounter is a "classic" red window on the back of the camera. Reflecta II was sold with three different shutters, Cludor (B, 1 - 1/200s), Junior or Vebur (B1 - 1/250s). The camera has a flash contact (x sync.)

Twin lens reflex cameras were still in favour during the fifties but soon they were smashed by 35mm rangefinders and SLR's.
This camera is a common 6x6 format TLR utilizing 120 film.

Film winding is done by a knob without automatic setting of the shutter so it has to be cocked by the separate lever. The ground glass has an etched lines for aid in composition.

Ferdinand Merkel founded in 1900 a camera workshop Camera-Werk Merkel, Tharandt. In 1932 Ferdinand Merkel developed a Twin - Lens Reflex camera, Reflekta. In the same year the company was taken over by Fritz Richter and the name was changed, Kamera-Werk C. Richter Tharandt. During the WWII the production was ceased. After the war, the company started manufacturing cameras again and was called since 1946 Reflecta Kamera Werke Tharandt and from 1948 Tharandt Kamera Werke (Uh, huh, or perhaps not) . Manufacturing of the post war Reflekta continued until in 1950 when Reflekta II was introduced and the manufacturing of the camera started, now by VEB Welta-Kamerawerk.

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