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In the 1950s, the 'Paxette' belonged to a series of very compact 35mm cameras from the Carl Braun company in Nuremberg, which packed much of the acclaimed German technology into it and equipped it with high-quality optics. Depending on the model and type, the Paxettes were equipped with fixed or interchangeable lenses (usually from the Staeble and Steinheil factories) and with or without a rangefinder. A Super Paxette with the very light-strong Roeschlein Luxon 2/50 mm lens was then considered the absolute top model of the compact Paxette series. This copy is a Paxette model 1 - type b; a simple KB viewfinder camera with a non-interchangeable Staeble Kataplast 2.8 / 45 mm lens in a Prontor S shutter with expiry times from 1 to 1/300 sec. + B. The most striking thing about this little gem of a camera is the perfectly symmetrical construction of the camera body. The least striking - but also most special of this Paxette - is the presence of an optical light meter, which is hidden behind the second viewfinder window - where it is more likely that a rangefinder will be found. Looking into this viewfinder, one sees glowing numbers (so-called light values) and the highest observable number that can still be read in that window indicates the correct light value. Which time / aperture combination belongs to the light value found can be found on a metal plate that is attached to the back of the ever-ready bag.
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