Voigtländer Bessamatic and Ultramatic
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Maker | Voigtländer |
| Type | 35mm SLR camera |
| Lens | |
| Lens mount | DKL-mount |
| Focusing | |
| Focus | manual |
| Exposure/metering | |
| Exposure | manual |
| Shutter | |
| Shutter | Synchro-Compur leaf |
| Shutter speeds | 1–1⁄500 + B, X/M |
The Bessamatic and Ultramatic were lines of 35mm SLR cameras made by Voigtländer in the 1960s, featuring a selenium meter. It uses a leaf shutter, similar to competing SLR cameras manufactured by Kodak (Retina Reflex) and Zeiss Ikon (Contaflex SLR) in Germany, rather than the focal plane shutter almost universally adopted by Japanese SLRs such as the contemporary Nikon F and Pentax Spotmatic. The Ultramatic was released in 1963, which used the same lens mount and added a shutter-priority autoexposure mode.