Wirgin
Wirgin was West Germany's main producer of SLRs with focal plane shutter.
An administrative officer of the American occupied zone of Germany sent Heinz Waaske as promising aspirant to Wirgin.
He constructed the company's first SLR, a model with focal plane shutter, the first camera like that in Western Germany.
Several 35mm viewfinder cameras had been made in the Franka-Kamerawerk in Bayreuth/Oberfranken, for example the one visible in the picture at the right side of this page, an Edixa with builtin selenium meter and a lens with selectors for shutter speed, aperture and distance.
In 1968 Henry Wirgin closed his original company and continued the production of some camera models in a new smaller plant.
variants of the Edixa Reflex series: bayonet and M42: 16mmsubminiature camera:Edixa 16、Edixa 16M、Edixa 16MB、Franka 16 Edixa16mm uses Rollei 16 type RADA cartridge，loaded with unperforated 16mm film 。Film width 16mm，frame format 14x21mm，20 exposures per cartridge。 In English: In German: In French: In English: In German: In French: This article was originally based on "Wirgin" in Camerapedia, retrieved at an unknown date under the GNU Free Documentation License.
:1：Film advance and shutter lever :2：rewind crank :3：counter :3：reverse lock
