Construction is primarily of stamped steel plate riveted together to form the main body, this being painted gloss black externally and satin black inside. Two with correction for parallax error when the subject is close to theĬamera. Compensation for the consequential viewfinderĬhange is by four rotating masks in the viewfinder, two for distance and Rear hatch allowing both red windows to be used, this is to allow eachįrame number to be used twice.
When the mask is fitted it retracts a blind built into the X 6cm format, the latter achieved with a removable mask fitted at theįocal plane. The Voigtländer Bessa I is a simple German, strut braced, self erectingįolding roll film camera for 8 frames 6 x 9cm format or 16 frames 4.5 Voigtländer Bessa I, folding 120 roll film camera C1950
