Busch Pressman Model D

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The Busch Pressman Model D is a press camera. It was made in the 1950s and 1960s. It is one of Busch's great mobile view cameras with three different finders: optical finder with parallax correction, ground glass screen and big sports finder with parallax correction. It allows a great variety of lens standard tilt and shift movements as well as double bellows enxtension. As press camera it can be used in combination with a big bulb flash. It has a rotatable plate holder.

The series of images above shows a later model that has the coupled rangefinder combined with the optical view finder on top instead of a separate rangefinder on one side of the camera. Like the earlier model it has a Rapax Synchromatic shutter with speeds from 1 sec. to 1/400 sec. It has a Wollensak Raptar f/4.7 135mm lens. Other versions have a Wollensak Optar f/4.7 135mm and a Graphex Synchromatic shutter, some are equipped with totally other lens/shutter combination, for example Carl Zeiss Jena lens 1:4.5 f=15cm in Compur shutter. For focusing by shifting the front standard the camera has a focusing scale and a pointer with magnifier. Other focusing aids are the precise coupled range finder and eventually a special press camera focusing lever at the lens. The camera is provided for M, F and X flash syncronization.

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