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A wide-angle mapping camera, with a Zeiss Topogon 10 cm lens and rotary blade shutter, used by the German army.
This object is on display in Boeing Aviation Hangar at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA.
Germany
EQUIPMENT-Photographic
Zeiss-Aerotopgraph G.M.B.H.
Green-gray case; zeiss topogon lens,10 cm,1:6.3; ventilated case; sheet film size 180mm x 255
3-D: 44 x 28 x 60cm (17 5/16 x 11 x 23 5/8 in.)
Aluminum
A19602391000
Transferred from the U.S. Air Force
National Air and Space Museum
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