Pellicle mirror
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A pellicle mirror is an ultra-thin, ultra-lightweight semi-transparent mirror employed in the light path of an optical instrument, splitting the light beam into two separate beams, both of reduced lig
The pellicle mirror of the Canon EOS RT
Single-lens reflex camera
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In photography, a single-lens reflex camera is a type of camera that uses a mirror and prism system to allow photographers to view through the lens and see exactly what will be captured. SLRs became t
Pellicle mirror
…with mirror-type beam splitters. The name pellicle is a diminutive of pellis, a skin or film. In photography, the pellicle mirror has been employed in single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras, at first to enable through-the-lens exposure measurement and possibly to reduce camera shake, but later most successfully to enable fast series…
The Zeiss Ikon VEB Contax S, manufactured in Dresden, one of the two original pentaprism SLRs for eye-level viewing that went into production in 1949. The Italian Rectaflex offered its first production SLR, the series 1000, the same year.
Cross section of SLR camera
Focusing screen on Praktica Super TL1000
16 mm SLR Narciss camera