A Contessa-Nettel Cocarette folding rollfilm camera (Format 6.5 x 9cm) with Citonar lens and Compur shutter
Contessa-Nettel
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1920 - 1926
Materials
Metal, Leather, Glass, Velvet
Measurements
Open 170 x 140 x 80 mm
Place of origin
Stuttgart
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524473.1
Summary
A Contessa-Nettel Cocarette folding rollfilm camera (Format 6.5 x 9cm) with Citonar lens and Compur shutter. Lens - Doppel Anastigmat Citonar f/4.5. Compur shutter manufactured by F. Deckel Folding wire framed sportsfinder and rotating brilliant finder. Sliding back plate. Camera is metal covered in black leather with black leather bellows. Handle is missing. Blue velvet inside the back cover. Markings: 'Contessa-Nettel' on exterior of back plate. White label with handwritten in black ink 'C/130' on bottom of hinged cover plate Printed around lens 'Contessa-Nettel D.R.P no. 258646 D.R.G.M.' and underneath 'COMPUR'. On lens: 'Doppel Astigmat Citonar 1:4.5 F=10.5 cm. No. 162841 Contessa-Nettel'
Provenance
Part of The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Contessa-Nettel , manufacturer F. Deckel , manufacturer