FLEXARET AUTOMAT VI
The Flexaret twin lens reflex cameras are a product of the Czechoslovakian company
Meopta (manufacturers of enlarging equipment). The Flexaret Automat VI was in
production from 1961-1967. This camera is a multiformat camera, 6x6 and 35 mm.
The picture shows the 35 mm insert,
35mm film cartridge adapters and
take up spool required to
accommodate 35mm film. The
insert goes into the film chamber.
The 35mm film goes under the shiny
small rollers and over the small
brown rollers on the frame spacing
control roller. This is how the
camera knows that the spacing needs
to be for 35mm film vs. 120 film. If
the camera shutter is cocked without film in the camera, the film counter reset lever needs
to be held down while rotating the frame spacing control roller until a number 1 – 12
shows in the frame counter window, then the shutter button can be pressed. When the
end of the 35mm cartridge is reached, the center button of the film wind knob is
depressed (and held) while the film spool knob on the lower left of the camera is turned
clockwise to rewind the film back into the 35mm cartridge.
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Shutter is a Metax, B, and 1-400 speed
with self-timer and X flash synch. The
focus lever (which operates similar to the
Minolta Autocords) has a depth of field
indicator built into it.
The lens is a Meopta Belar 80/3.5f, single
coated, four element, three group tessar
design. The lens coating is very soft and
can be easily removed with ammonia
based lens cleaners. F stops are from 3.5f
to 22f, film wind is by knob with
automatic setting of the shutter. Filters
are a Meopta special bayonet 30 size, the
bayonets have only two lugs as opposed to
the more common Rollei and Yashica
bayonets with 3 lugs. The film chamber is baffled, and like the Minolta Autocord
cameras, the camera can be loaded with film while mounted on a tripod.
The backside of the
camera has a filter
compensation guide.
Right side view of the camera.
The ground glass is marked with superslide (4x4) and
35mm picture sizes. The ground glass does not have
a fresnel screen, so the view is not as bright as the
Yashicas and Autocords, but the view is brighter than
the early Rollies. Waist level finder has an action
finder for 120 and 35mm formats.
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