The 1938 Univex Mercury was an unusual
half frame 35 mm camera from The Universal Camera Corporation.
It was the first camera with any kind of
hot shoe
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connector, and had a distinctive profile due to a large dome protruding from the top of the main body to accommodate its 1/1000 sec
rotary disc shutter
A rotary disc shutter is a type of shutter. It is notably used in motion picture cameras. Rotary shutters are semicircular discs that spin in front of the film gate, alternately allowing light from the lens to strike the film, or blocking it.
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. It used Universal #200 film, which was only made prior to WWII.
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