Clarissa (Tropen)

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"The Clarissa is a tropical strut-folding camera for 4.5x6 cm plates, made by Ernst Lorenz of Berlin in the 1920s. The camera is horizontally oriented. The body is wooden, usually without leather covering, and the bellows is of red or brown leather. Most fittings are brass, and most examples seen also have a brass front standard. Examples are also seen with a wooden front plate; unlike the brass front, this allows sideways lens-shift. The camera has a focal-plane shutter with speeds 1/20 - 1/1000 second; there is a plate on the top, giving the shutter settings (slit width and spring…"

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