This early model resembles a TLR but it is functionally closer to a box camera, since it cannot be focused in the viewfinder.

To assist this estimate, three situations are marked around the taking lens: Porträt, Gruppe and Landschaft (i. e. Portrait, Group and Landscape).

While TLRs of the same period have a rather dim ground-glass viewfinder, the Brillant has a so-called brilliant finder made of plain glass.

From 1937 onwards, Brillants were made of bakelite, a polymer, and introduced an accessory compartment for an exposure meter or filters.

This article was originally based on "Brillant" in Camerapedia, retrieved on 31-08-2008 under the GNU Free Documentation License.