Univex

Mercury CC

The Univex Mercury CC is an interesting 35mm half frame camera. The CC was produced from 1938-1942. The CC model takes special 35mm wide film in special canisters unlike the Mercury II which uses normal perforated 35mm film. The camera is pictured here with the Mercury Exposure Meter (which is an extinction meter) mounted on the shoe on top of the camera. The camera pictured has a Tricor 35mm f3.5 lens and shutter speeds from B and T to 1/1000. The camera has an interesting rotating shutter. The shutter mechanism is why the camera has the interesting bulge on the top of the camera. The shutter is a circle with a variable slit (imagine a slice of pizza) that rotates past the film plane to expose the film. The shutter speed is controlled by varying the size of the slit and the speed that the disc travels. The lens has a bladed diaphragm which stops smoothly from f3.5 to f22 and the lens focuses from 1.6 feet to infinity. There are an optional rangefinder and rapid winder which are both rare as is the extinction meter in the pictured camera. There is a rotating exposure calculator on the back of the camera.



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