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Kinax was the name of a French company in Montreuil sur Bois - a suburb of Paris - whose origins date back to 1880 when the company was still called 'Jousset' and mainly made wooden paneling for elegant rooms. It was not until October of 1945 that Jousset started a new company under the name 'Kinax' and first started building a series of 6x9 folding cameras and later also some models of 6x6 TLR cameras. Until the beginning of 1958 the 'Kinax' company continued to produce cameras under its own name until it eventually merged with 'Gevaert' and 'Voigtländer' at the end of the same year and continued as a joint company under the name 'GKV' . The 'Kinax 1' was the first type of 6x9 folding camera with which the company 'Kinax' appeared on the market in 1947. The solidly built horizontally folding bellows camera has an (uncoated) Som Berthiot KINN 4.5 / 10.5 cm lens in an IPO-150 shutter that is synchronized for flash lamps. The distance is adjustable with a ring around the front lens. The 'Kinax' 1 was built in different variants. This copy is a variant with two viewfinders; a tilting brilliant viewfinder, for static shots from the hip - and a fold-out optical frame viewfinder, for sports shots from eye level. With a roll film of the 120 type, eight 6x9 cm exposures could be made. The well-built Kinax 1 camera is covered with black Moroccan grained artificial leather.
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