Zeiss Ikon 'Zeitlupe' High-Speed Camera
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Zeiss Ikon 'Zeitlupe' high-speed camera. Model II, manufactured by Zeiss Ikon AG , Dresden, Germany, 1935. One of two camera bodies. Serial number 2045/1.
The Zeitlupe or 'time magnifier' camera used a combination of a rotating mirror drum and continuously moving film. The maximum speed was 1,500 frames a second. A full load of film (180 feet) lasted just two seconds. Zeitlupe cameras were used to record the V-bomb experiments carried out by the Germans at Peenemunde in the Baltic during the second world war.
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- Category:
- Cinematography
- Object Number:
- 1992-5018/1
- Materials:
- steel (metal), aluminium alloy, wood (unidentified) and glass
- Measurements:
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overall: 300 mm x 300 mm x 530 mm,
- type:
- cine camera