Braun paxette manual

One of the nice things about acquiring some notoriety for an eccentric attachment to old cameras, is that occasionally someone brings one over. This evening, a friend stopped by with a Braun Paxette Panto in a nice leather case. This is a compact 35mm viewfinder camera. I'd guess it was made between 1960 and 1963. Electromatic I In 1959 the Braun Paxette electromatic was advertised as the world's first fully automatic 35mm camera. Its selenium meter controlled the aperture and gave a red/green light sufficiency signal in the viewfinder. But other automatic functions were missing. Many models and variations of the Paxette and Super Paxette were made from the mid 50s to the mid 60s, at which point Braun moved production from Germany to the Far East. In 2000 the original Braun company went bankrupt, but a new company, Braun Photo Technik GmbH was established in 2004 and still exists today and their range of products This Braun Paxette Electromatic is a viewfinder 35 mm camera made around about 1959 in Germany and is the latest camera I've added to my vintage camera collection. At the time of manufacture it was advertised as the world's first fully automatic camera because it uses a selenium cell to control the lens aperture and has a simple go/no-go The Braun Paxette is a 35mm rangefinder camera from the 1950s. Its "Pointikar" 2.8 lens operates at shutter speeds from 1/300th of a second to 1 second, plus it has a bulb setting. Interchangeable lenses were available, and when it's all screwed together it feels like it could survive being run over by a tank! Braun Paxette 50's 35mm viewfinder (precise model unknown) The IIL manual indicates you can use X at 1/30 (for electronic flash guns) and I'm guessing the same goes here. There is a cable slot and tripod mount on base. The film compartment opens by unscrewing ring around tripod mount.. The whole back panel lifts off. and there is a gate Compact viewfinder camera from Braun, released in the 1950s. A more advanced version known as the Super Paxette featured a coupled rangefinder and a faster lens. Lens: 40mm Braun Ennagon Fixed focus. Fully automatic exposure based on large coupled selenium cell. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for VINTAGE BRAUN PAXETTE IIM RANGEFINDER CAMERA WITH LENS Case Manual ++1953 at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! There is a conventional knob to rewind the film at the left-hand end of the top cover. The rewind button, which must be held depressed throughout the entire rewinding process, is the small button on the top of the top cover, on the right, towards the rear. Accessories and lenses Standard lenses Staeble Kata 45mm f/2.8 Steinheil Cassarit 45mm f/2.8