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     Tom_cheshire Tinkerer Username: Tom_cheshire Post Number: 62 Registered: 04-2009 Rating: N/A |
Hey, the backs you are talking about were made by some little back room tinker shop for Hansa. They made two backs that I know of but there may be others. One was the Crown, their top-of-the-line with automatic frame counter. The other was the Venus, a more standard type back like the Suydam and Rada with red window. By the way, the Crown back I saw was 6x7. An odd format prior to the war. The Crown may have had that name because it was the "king" of their roll film back line or because it was intended for the Molta (early Minolta) and Minolta cameras, particularly the Auto Press (which had a Crown shutter). The reason to name a roll film back Venus back is not readily understood unless, logically, it was for the ultra rare Molta Venus folding plate camera which would date it at about 1930. Speculation on my part. I saw a box for the Venue back once. It had both Japanese and English writing on it. |