Paxette Electromatic

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"The Paxette electromatic is a series of 35mm cameras produced by Braun from 1959 to early 1964. They all feature the same compact body, a built-in selenium meter and coupled with it a trap-needle exposure automatic. When launched in 1959 the original version was advertised as the world's first and only truly fully automatic 35mm camera causing a legal dispute with Agfa who launched its superior Optima a few weeks earlier. Despite the automatic aperture the original electromatic is a rather simple camera with a fixed focus lens and only one shutter speed and film speed setting. The later Paxette…"

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