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Old 22nd March 2009, 13:03
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Unusual Bf 109 cockpit assembly

Can you help to clear the unusual cockpit assembly - maybe a camera mounted on a Bf 109?

As far as I know, it is a Bf 109 (G-2/G-6) from 4./JG 51, showing H.E. Bob (left) and Borchers in the Reichsverteidigung, winter 1943.

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Old 22nd March 2009, 14:44
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Re: Unusual Bf 109 cockpit assembly

It is a camera.

You can see opening in the fairing, the film drum, what looks like a multiple (three) lens type camera?

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Old 23rd March 2009, 11:19
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Re: Unusual Bf 109 cockpit assembly

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It is a camera.

You can see opening in the fairing, the film drum, what looks like a multiple (three) lens type camera?

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Thank you Ruy, I believe the same.

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Re: Unusual Bf 109 cockpit assembly

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It is a camera.
You can see opening in the fairing, the film drum, what looks like a multiple (three) lens type camera?
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FYI, something like a handheld 35mm Arriflex Cine-cam. It did have a lensrevolver for upto three switchable lenses.
A "zoom"-lens was not yet invented in those days...
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