![]() What follows is my best attempt at not only interpreting the German to English translation, but also paraphrasing the article without retyping it word for word. Google Translate wouldn’t work correctly on this site, so I had to copy and paste nearly everything manually, and some of the translations were very poor. Note: Almost all of the information below comes from the excellent German language website. +1 for pioneering design, unique feature set, and all around wow factor I highly recommend this model to anyone who is interested in old film cameras. It’s feature set and exposure size, excellent build quality, compact size, and outstanding optics made this one of the most unique and fun to use vintage cameras ever. In addition to it’s unique exposures, it also has a wind-up clockwork motor that allows for automatic film advance and setting of the shutter after each exposure, and has an interchangeable lens mount. ![]() Although it requires a special take-up spool unique to these cameras, it accepts normal 35mm cassettes on the supply side. The Berning Robot Junior is a high quality compact camera that shoots square 24mm exposures on regular 35mm film. Lens: 38mm f/3.5 Schneider Kreuznach Radionar coated 3-elementsįlash Mount: Coldshoe and M and X Flash Sync Featuring an interchangeable lens mount and a clockwork motorized film advance capable of up to 4 frames per second, the Robot Junior is truly a unique and fascinating camera.įilm Type: 135 (35mm) (24mm x 24mm square exposures) The reason for this was partially due to the size of the camera’s unique rotary shutter, but also to keep the camera as compact as possible. The Robot Junior, like most Robot cameras took 24mm x 24mm square exposures on standard 35mm film. The Junior was an economy version of the Robot Star released two years earlier which lacked a 90 degree right angle viewfinder, and rewind mechanism, but was otherwise the same. This is a Robot Junior (sometimes incorrectly called the Star Junior or Junior Star) made by the Robot Berning Company in Düsseldorf, Germany starting in 1954.
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