What camera is this?

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Saw this on the Persol sunglasses website and was wondering if anyone knew what camera it is?

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Yes it does look a bit like a Werra, but the winder is just not right and there should be more chrome.

On the other hand, there's nothing there that couldn't be a Werra with deliberate modification. At least, that's how it looks to a novice like me.

Hopefully someone with genuine knowledge will step in...
 
jsrockit said:
Hmmm...dejavu:

https://www.photo.net/discuss/threads/what-camera-is-this.478562/
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You've just got to love this! The camera already discussed elsewhere in another shot!

That's the same camera. Rules out photoshopping - it's the same. Confirms it's a Werra (see the underside on the linked photo). That's a fair bit of work though, presumably so that (back in the day) people didn't wonder too much about the wind on. I can't see how that would be true now :)

If it's functional (and no evidence at all of that) then who set up the lens? If it's purely a dummy - what is the lens from?
 
The body might be a Werra, but if so 1/the winder is part of the lens mount, so 2/the fake crank has been glued to the top over the shutter release, and 3/the smaller chrome Werra leaf shutter lens has been removed to jimmy in a fat black lens from another camera, and maybe 4/the top has been painted black. Werras generally have plain metal tops.

I'd rather have my Werra than those sunglasses.
 
Another vote for a physically modified and repainted Werra; possibly "modified" to the point of being unusable. You can just make out that it's an f/2.8 lens, so that rules out the 100/4 Cardinar, and it doesn't look like the 35/2.8 Flektogon. The real question is WHY anyone did it.

Cheers,

R.
 
Hmmm, the body started as a Werra but what the lens is beyond the winder beats me...

Regards, David

PS (EDIT) and what's that bit of camera lens on the left of the picture; you can't see all of it but I wonder if it was left over from the conversion.
 
The lens looks like a later-model Domiplan that's been "touched up" a bit.
As to why the mods? Probably an old prop made to look like a generic camera so as not to provide free advertising for any make (remember the blacked-out Exakta in Rear Window?).
 
Former GDR, definitely.
Cam indeed a modified Werra.
Lens has the typical looks of a GDR lens of a certain period.
 
Roger Hicks said:
Another vote for a physically modified and repainted Werra; possibly "modified" to the point of being unusable. You can just make out that it's an f/2.8 lens...
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That's a bit fast for a scale focusing lens, but the major usability problem would the the lack of a shutter release. The hacked in wind lever is covering the place on the Werra's top cover where the release should be.
 
It looks like Werra, modified or Photoshopped to look like a "real" film camera. Otherwise, it migjt be mistaken for a digital one without a film advance lever.
 
And yes, now all of us are running to find our Werras to make sure they didn't leave home to be corrupted in the world of fashion shoot accessorizing. (Because WE want to run away to be corrupted and made over etc etc. --Sorry, I've been looking at patent leather and snake shoes at Zappos).
 
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