Baky - Antique and Vintage Cameras

Baky

c. 1934

Wirgin

Wiesbaden

Germany

Image of Baky

Lens:
f2.9, 7.5 cm Schneider Radionar, iris diaphragm to f32. Serial no. 799713 .

Shutter:
Compur Rapid, speeds 1 - 1/400, B, T. Delayed action.

Construction:
Black Bakelite body with grained finish.

Format:
16, 6 x 4.5 cm exposures on 120 roll-film.

Focusing:
Front cell, scale to 1 m.

Attributes:
Eye-level optical finder.
Film advance indicated by two red windows.

Identification:
Body release. Wirgin label.

The Baky appeared around 1934, an advertisement from the British Journal of Photography in 1936 implies that early models did not have a body release and that the covers to the red windows had been improved. It was available in either black or brown and in either a smooth finish or grained resembling leather covering. The most common lens was an f2.9 Radionar others included f3.8 Cassar and an f2.9 Meyer, shutters, in UK advertised models, were either a Compur with a top speed of 1/250 or a Compur Rapid with a top speed of 1/400.

In the UK the camera was sold by the Sheffield Photo Co. as the Norfolk and by Westminster as the Victoria, it was later sold by the Camera Co. as the Vauxhall, possibly remaindered stock.

References & Notes:
BJA 1936, p.636 Wirgin. BJA 1935, pp. 313, 536; BJA 1936, p. 534 Westminster. BJA 1936, p. 521 Sheffield Photo.

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