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"The quality of its making and its heavy weight make it a weird
crossing between a camera, high quality watch-making and heavy artillery" "One must hold this camera once in his life to understand what a top precision camera can be." lumieresenboite |
At the mid upper edge of the back panel is the shutter release control
switch:
Green = the shutter release is active, Red = locked, R = film rewind position.
The M contact still has a cover plug, but the X contact cover has been lost.
The mode selector has two positions, N = single shot,
and S = burst mode.
The clockwork drive is wound by turning the key flap back and forth.
There is
a foot which can be flipped out for balancing support on a table top.
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Robot Royal uses a breech-lock mounting system. The lens is released by pushing in the small button below the lens and turning the lock lever clockwise until the breech ring releases the lens. Note the triple locking flanges on the inside of the ring and on the outside of the lens barrel. The darker square with rounded corners is the shutter. The lever of the range finder is visible under the red alignment mark. The corresponding mark on the lens is aligned with this mark when inserting the lens. The range finder guide spiral is visible on the lens barrel between the alignment dot and the focus ring, which has three protruding flaps to facilitate focusing. |
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When the film rewind knob is turned clockwise, it will rise above the camera superstructure and simultaneously push down the fork which grabs the end of the film cassette axle. Below: when the shutter release is locked, the viewfinder ocular is covered with a red plate. |
 The camera utilises a special, light-tight take-up cassette. | |
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Two Rangefinders
Robot Royal 24 with a 3.9/75 Tele-Xenar mounted and FED-2 with a 1.5/50 Jupiter-3
