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Robot mechanical camera

Robot cameras appeared in the 1930s when the mechanical industry was gradually developed. It was also in that era that many mechanical classics appeared and cameras developed rapidly in this field. Heinz? Heinz Kilfitt independently manufactured a small camera at 193 1. This small camera adopts the unique rotating shutter design of film camera, and the film width is 24 × 24 mm, but unfortunately camera brands such as Agfa and Kodak are not interested in this. It was not until 1932 that Kilfit met his Bole-Hans Heinrich? Hans Berning. Hans Heinrich? Berning's father Otto? Otto Berning is the owner of a garment accessories factory. With the financial support of my father and my uncle Herman? With the help of Bai Ning (the boss of GEOS Company), on June 1933, Hans? Heinrich? Baining established a robot company.

Otto? Bai Ning was an industrial designer before World War II, and he was a crazy mechanical fan since he was a child. Later, he joined the Air Force, which was a natural thing for him, because he was a staunch anti-war. When he served in the Royal German Air Force, he became an airplane mechanic. If you install a huge film box and an electronic motor, you can shoot more than 100 films per minute. In the end, Otto Ning Er became close friends with Leica designer Oscar Barnach. Since robots originated from the military, the starting point is higher than Leica. According to Otto Berning, Leica is excellent, but he is just a "gentleman", just like Mr. Oscar Barnah. When designing the robot I model, we carefully studied Leica, and set the frame of the robot to 24x24 mm, so that photographers don't have to choose vertical frames or banners when shooting, while Leica is 24x35 mm, and the robot adopts winding design. I can take 20 photos every time I wind it up, and it is very small. In all types of robots, the volume of the fuselage is only the size of the palm of an ordinary person. Since its appearance, Robot I was regarded as the first choice weapon of the Royal Air Force by the Nazis at that time, and it was still regarded as one of the spy-specific models by many western countries after the war. Robots have always been unable to get rid of the fate of providing technical support to the military. However, because of this, robots are unique in design technology in the world. At the beginning of the second generation of the late robot, there was a set of very professional accessories, which provided a 300-meter-long film box. But robots, like Leica, have many unknown legends. After the baptism of time, robots have faded out of people's sight, but today the robot series is still the "machine emperor" in the paraxial camera.