French KINAX II folding bellows film camera in very good condition

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French KINAX II folding bellows film camera in very good condition

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The Kinax II is a folding camera for typeNo. 620 roll film, made by Kinax in Paris from 1946 to 1950.Several variants were made. It is a folder with a self-erecting bellows thatallows no lens movements.The one shown at the right has a Berthiot Flor 1:4.5 F=105mmlens and an IPO shutter withself-timer, with speeds 1, 1/2, 1/5, 1/10, 1/25,1/50, 1/150 and 1/350 sec. plus B mode and with a diaphragm that’s stoppabledown to f32. The lens is focusable from 1.75 m to infinity by turning the frontlens element. It has a collapsible reverse Galilean finder withthe ocular lens in a thumb wheel.This wheel with its distance scale allows correction of ocular heightas means of parallax correction. In the camera back is aclosable red film advance control window. Characteristic elements on topare the viewfinder ocular in the thumb wheel on top of the collapsed finder,and the two big metal buttons, one the unfolding button and the other theshutter release.The film advance key is positioned on the bottom, as well asthe tripod thread.In England it was sold branded Actina, with Kinn 1:4.5 lenshttp://collectiblend.com/Cameras/Kinax/Kinax-(II).html

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