Strange Robot Royal II - screwmount lens and no rangefinder?

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Does anyone know more about this rare beauty?

It seems to be a Robot Royal Mod. II - which is already very rare - but mine looks slightly different than one I saw on ebay: the accessory shoe is much higher. It seems as if not all of those 1000 that were built were made the same way.

Is this the "Dr. Strangelove Edition"?

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It appears to me that someone has made an extension block to go under the accessory shoe. Maybe their flash kept hitting them in the forehead.

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I remember that these Robot cameras (in some form or other) were used by police in Germany to take pics of cars running red lights etc in the 1960? Using huge magazines with 50 feet of film ...

Also to shoot long series of images. They had a rotary shutter that could run off a good number of pics per second ...; hence the large film magazines ...

I toyed with getting one of those back then ... Never had the money for it, nor wanted to pay for those bulk rolls of film ... and developing. Quite attractive otherwise ..
 
It is a (probable 3rd party) machined raiser to increase the distance between cold shoe and exposure release-- which gets in the way of a number of viewfinders and accesssories.
 
uhligfd said:
Also to shoot long series of images. They had a rotary shutter that could run off a good number of pics per second ...; hence the large film magazines ...
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The large films magazines had nothing to do explicitly with the rotary shutter. Most were never used in kinematraphic (rapid fire) modus. Most of the recorder cameras did not come with the feature at all. The benefit of the rotary shutter most demanded was slow speed behavior-- e.g. its lower vibration.
The point of the external magazines was to enable long sessions of shooting without changing film. Since the cameras have motors--- and could take outboard wind-up and electric motors to extended the number of shots possibile without a "wind"--- they were commonly used with electric relays--- already in the late 1930s Robot began offering electro-mechanical remotes. With a remote controlled camera being able to break through a limit of 50 or 72 exposures proved highly desirable. In the early 1940s Robot introduced models with larger film cavities. Later they introduced with the Royal special versions to take external film magazines... the first of these external magazines were, I think, standard Arri 35mm cinema mags with their gears reversed.
 
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