Rodenstock photographic camera

Description

The Rodenstock camera is a bellows camera manufactured in the 1930s by the German Optische Werke G. Rodenstock optical works. A camera with bellows represents the next stage in the development of camera design after the box camera. The advantages of flexible bellows with a slide-out lens include: the ability to use a large range of focus, ease of correcting the perspective, comfortable folding and unfolding, and relatively small dimensions when folded up. Such devices are very well suited for macro photography, i.e., where the recorded object is reproduced in its natural dimensions or slightly enlarged. Making such photographs was made possible by the double extension mechanism, where the camera lens is placed on a slide-out carriage attached to the lowered camera lid. Manufacturer: Optische Werke G. Rodenstock, Munich, Germany, 1930s Inv. No.: MIM177/VI-39 Model prepared on the basis of photogrammetric measurements Licence: CC BY-NC-SA