Exakta VX SLR camera
Date: circa 1950
Inventory Number: 2000-1-0015a
Classification: Camera
Subject:
Maker: Ihagee Kamerawerk G.m.b.H. (founded 1912)
Supplier: Exakta Camera Co., Inc.
User: Herbert W. Levi (born 1921)
Cultural Region:
Dimensions:
camera: 9.5 × 14.9 × 9.7 cm (3 3/4 × 5 7/8 × 3 13/16 in.)
box: 12.7 × 28.6 × 22.2 cm (5 × 11 1/4 × 8 3/4 in.)
Accessories: leather case; tripod mounting screw; homeless Ihagee lens-cap in ziploc bag; microphotography adapting barrels, Ihagee microscope adapter (2000-1-0015b); three manuals (in instrument's file)
Description:
Early SLR camera body with a f/3.5 50mm Meyer-Optik Gorlitz lens. Black leather and chrome steel body. Shutter trigger is on left side. Camera is protected by a thick, brown leather case with faded purple velvet lining. It comes with a microphotography adapter (2000-1-0015b).
original price: $269.50, plus $12 for leather case.
original price: $269.50, plus $12 for leather case.
Signedon front: Exakta / Ihagee / Dresden
Inscribedorange tag inside camera back: Made by IHAGEE CAMERA WORKS / Germany / for Export. . . EXAKTA CAMERA CO., INC. / 46 West 29th St. New York 1, N.Y.
Historical AttributesUsed for microphotography by Prof. Herbert Walter Levi, Professor of Biology, Emeritus Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford St., Room 131, Cambridge, MA.