Intriguing, anyway… I hope someone in the German forum can identify the camera body… from the finishing and the presence of lightmeter and view finder, it indeed looks a standard 35 mm economic camera (deprived of the shutter button, top right ? next to it there looks to be a std. Uhm… the camera is little… I made a sight comparision with cameras like Dacora / Braun / Diax / Contina… it looks a bit smaller : no much more in width than the Rollei 35 quoted by Uliwer (at its time it established a sort of record for compact 35mm) haven't find a German camera with this look (that imho can be dated towards the end of '60s) … but haven't much documentation about anyway, it looks to have never had a focal plane shutter… probably it was deprived of its original lens with leaf shutter, substituted by that 'sliding manual shutter' onto a bayonet mount. But there seems to be a shutter into the 'box' : activated by ? (electrically from the plug ?) indeed the front of the box looks like to be fit on a microscope or similar… but the '0,32x' on the lens could also be interpreted as a device to make reproductions of 75x112 mm plates… or (I do not know if it used to be a standard for microphotography) maybe it can be a 'reduction ratio' for the nominal enlargement of the microscope to be attached… to say, if you have a 100x ocular on the microscope, the image on the negative is indeed 32x enlarged… I believe it is a microscope type lens though. I cannot even guess what the other device could be meant for. Can you seperate the lens from the camera body?ĭid you try to take photos with it? It would be interesting to see the results. The „lens“ is obviously no photographic lens it looks more like a device to be used for reproduction or microscopic practice - also in prototype state. Perhaps you can show photos of the top of the camera, and of the little window on the right rear side( just a film counter, or something else). I‘d rule out Leica since I cannot see anything which reminds me of any Leica design.

It was manufactured between 1957-1962 and is untested. Since issueing our last catalogue, a number of new apparatus and. We are selling an Ernst Leitz Wetzlar Microscope, serial number 565165, that was used on a University campus. It seems to have a lightmeter, but I cannot find any devices to make use of it (shutter-speed etc.) It looks rather well built so one might think of a prototype from Voigtländer, Zeiss, Rollei or Japanese origin from the late 60s. Project Gutenbergs Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus, by Ernst Leitz This eBook is. The records are well documented, and are a relative precise way to determine the age of a lens or a connected camera.The camera looks like a small size model for 35mm film comparable to the Rollei 35 or the Leica Cl. The company Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar, Germany started adding serial numbers to their lenses in 1931.

Leitz Summicron 5cm 1:2 Serial #1205718 (1954) on a Leica M3Īn early Leitz Elmar 5cm f/3.5 #102864 from 1931 on a Nagel Pupille

Leitz wetzlar microscope serial numbers