Old cameras

	Exakta Varex, Dresden 1950-51, Schneider Xenar 105mm/3.5 bellows lens. This combination focuses all the way from 1 cm for extreme close-ups (macro), to a few metres for portraits, to infinity for landscapes. It would have been used in laboratories or clinics, or outdoors for entomology or botany.
	The same camera from the rear. A magnifying viewing lens is inserted in place of the standard viewfinder, in order to facilitate focusing. The knob on the right is a special feature, a precision clockwork timer for timed delays up to 12 seconds, or long exposures up to 12 seconds.

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