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Ufa


A touch of electric release button also cocks the shutter and advances the film The camera is thus always ready to take a picture.

1/10s - 1/100s shutter.
2.7/20mm lens, later 2/20mm.

(Source Princelle 2nd edition)

Images 2, 3, 4 and 5 are from Detlev Vreisleben Archives

Serial # 450189. Private collector.

Images 6,7,8,9 courtesy of Dr. Milos Mladek

Image 10: http://www.zenitcamera.com/qa/qa-logos.html#oot

images 11 and 12: http://ussrcameras.ru/catalog/617

The UFA wasn't produced in UFA. The name means "Универсальный ФотоАппарат Universal Foto Apparat) and the camera was created bei OOT (Отдел оперативной техники Department of operational equipment of the 1st Main Directorate of the Ministry of State Security of the USSR, Moscow). There is an UFA camera for document copy with a finder and a distance setting from 0.4 to 0.7 m.

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Created by Vlad on 8/18/2007 11:07:29 PM   |   Last Edited by Detlev on 7/25/2019 12:44:22 PM   Revision History  
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