This article needs additional citations for. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (September 2017) () Robot is a German imaging company known originally for, later producing () and bank cameras. ![]() ![]() Originally created in 1934 as a brand of, it became part of the group of optical companies in 1999. In 2002 the company changed its name from Robot Foto & Electronic to ROBOT Visual Systems GmbH. The motorized amateur cameras powered by clockwork (spring) motors were first made in 1934, and ended with a special limited edition collector's model, 'Star Classic', in 1996. The Robot film cameras used, mostly in square 24 × 24 mm image format, but many used 18 × 24 mm (half-frame) and 24 × 36 mm (standard Leica format), and non-standard formats such as 6 × 24 mm (Recorder 6), 12 × 24 mm (Recorder 12) and 16 × 16 mm (Robot SC). Contents • • • • • • • • • • Clockwork cameras [ ] Robot I [ ] Around 1930, a trained watchmaker, designed a new 35 mm film compact camera using a 24×24 mm frame format (instead of the Leica 24×36 mm or cine 18×24 mm formats). The 24×24mm square frame provided many advantages, including allowing over 50 exposures per standard roll of Leica film instead of 36. Kodak and Agfa rejected the design, and it was sold to, who set up the Otto Berning firm. Otto Berning was granted its first Robot in 1934; a US patent was granted in 1936. The camera was originally intended to come in two versions: Robot I, without motor, and Robot II with a spring motor. Laudon 2246, Kaname Itsuki 3363, Lynne Gibson 8870 - Starter Pack 332X - Or Christianity and the American Constitution (1889), Alonzo Trevier Jones 5502, Burton Goodman 0017, Robert Anton Wilson 4455, Christina Ruse, Elana Katz 0094, Dorothy U. Queen latifah nature of a sista rar extractor. Robot Ii Camera Serial NumbersIts release was delayed and already the first camera 'Robot I' included its hallmark spring motor. The first production had a body, a spring drive that could shoot 4 frames per second, and a rotary shutter with speeds from 1 to 1/500th second. The camera used proprietary 'Type K' cartridges, not the now-standard 35 mm cartridges introduced in the same year by Kodak's for the. The camera does not have a, as it was designed for use mostly with short focal length lenses (e.g. 40 mm) with great depth of field. Dec 13, 2010. Hello, I recently got a camera that the owner wants to sell through me. I don't think this is something for e-bay and so I have come here to ask. Dec 26, 2013. Very nice original Luftwaffe Robot Model II camera! I collect German 35mm photographica and I have 15 Robot I and II's of which most are military examples. The Schneider serial number puts the lens at about 1943-44 but that may not correspond with when the camera was made. Does the switch work. Wifi Robot: A remote control car that can be driven over the internet or with a laptop wirelessly from up to 500m away. It has a live-feed. The Robot I was quite small, the body measuring 4¼ inches long, 2½ inches high, and 1¼ inches deep. A very sharp zone-focusing f/2.8, 3.25 cm Zeiss Tessar lens added 1/2 inch to the camera depth. It was about the size of the much later although it weighed about 20 ounces, approximately the weight of a modern SLR. The die-cast zinc and stamped stainless steel body was crammed with clockwork. A spring motor on the top plate provided the driving force for a rotary behind-the-lens shutter and a sprocket film drive. The film was loaded into cassettes in a darkroom or changing bag. The cassettes appear to be based on the Agfa Memo cassette design, the now-standard Kodak 35 mm cassette not yet being popular in Germany. In place of the velvet light trap on modern cassettes, the Robot cassette used spring pressure and felt pads to close the film passage. When the camera back was shut, the compression opened the passage and the film could travel freely from one cassette to another. The rotary shutter and the film drive are like those used in cine cameras. When the shutter release is pressed, a light-blocking shield lifts and the shutter disc rotates a full turn exposing the film through its open sector; when the pressure is released the light-blocking shield returns to its position behind the lens, and the spring motor advances the film and recocks the shutter. This is almost instantaneous. With practice a photographer could take 4 or 5 pictures a second. Each winding of the spring motor was good for about 25 pictures, half a roll of film. Shutter speed was determined by spring tension and mechanical delay since the exposure sector was fixed. The Robot I had an exposure range of 1 to 1/500, and provision for time exposures. The camera had other features not specifically related to action photography. The small optical viewfinder could be rotated 90 degrees to permit pictures to be taken in one direction while the photographer was facing in another. When the viewfinder was rotated, the scene was viewed through a deep purple filter similar to those used by cinematographers to judge the black and white contrast of an image. The camera had a built-in deep yellow filter which could be positioned behind the lens. Robot II [ ]. Main article: In 1938 Berning introduced the, a slightly larger camera with some significant improvements but still using the basic mechanism. Among the standard lenses were a 3 cm Zeiss Tessar and a 3.75 cm Zeiss Tessar in f/2.8 and 3.5 variations, a f/2.0, 40 mm Zeiss Biotar and f/4, 7.5 cm Zeiss Sonnar. The film cassette system was redesigned, and the 1951 IIa accepted a standard 35 mm cassette.
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