In article <1996Apr30.074346.29451@lafn.org>, ac659@lafn.org says...

>It is a German made camera, called EXA.
>An SLR with a pop-up waist level finder similar to a twin
>lens reflex. It is in working order. When the mirror lifts
>up a shutter seems to come up from beneath it. The
>finder remains blank, until the film is wound to
>the next frame. There is a long lens that appears
>to be made of aluminum. Also German. I think it says
>Wiegan or something similar.

It is the infamous entry-level/backup-body Exacta (an early,
successful system SLR made in Germany). The Exa was my first
Exacta-mount camera (and, with 25mm f4 [actually f5.6] Zeiss
Flectogon, 50mm f2 Zeiss Pancolor, 100mm f3.5 Steinheil,and
400mm f6.8 Spiratone lenses and a Weston meter, became my
first reasonably serious 35mm outfit - I have slides shot
with it in the '60's that still look pretty good).
The interchangeable WL VF is well done and cute optically and mechanically, the camera is small, but the shutter has a VERY
limited range of speeds, and about causes the camera to jump
out of your hands when fired.... It is a neat curiosity item,
if very cheap, but it probably has little collector value.
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