Dacora Digna

Another from West Germany.

This very nearly went in the bin. I couldn't get the shutter to work. It looked like the linkage had broken because I could fire it from within the camera. And then, all of a sudden, I tripped the telescoping lens. With the lens extended, the linkage connected and all was well.

Now I know that most digital compacts have telescoping lenses, but they were unheard of in the fifties. The best you could hope for was a fold out bellows. This was a very neat idea.

Dacora was very much the Cosina of its day and made very many cameras under other company's branding.