Amateur Photographer

Twin Lens Contaflex

‘Sure it has two lenses, but that’s about its only similarity to a traditional TLR’

you are familiar with twin lens reflex (TLR) cameras from the film age, mention of the type will bring forth images of the Rolleiflex and the many models that copied its shape and way of working. You’ll be thinking of an upright black box with two lenses of the same focal length one above the other, the lower lens to shoot the picture, the upper one to reflect its image via an internal mirror to a waist-level viewfinder on the top of the body. It will take 120 size roll film, running vertically through the

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