Arette C Color-Isconar 1:2.8 f=50mm ISCO Prontor SVS

A beautifully designed camera and in great condition. Description from the internet. The Arette C is a compact rangefinder 35mm film camera which has a Xenar 50mm f2.8 lens in a Prontor-SVS shutter with 9 shutter speeds from 1 second to 1/300 of a second plus bulb for timed exposures. It also has 6 aperture settings stopping down to f16 and a cold shoe for a flash unit with connectivity via pc sync on the front of the camera. Other features on the camera are a plunger socket, a rotating focus ring with left plus right-handed grip bumps, frame counter on the bottom, a right-handed single action frame advance lever, a slide-out foot for tabletop placement, an ASA reminder wheel on the top right, a film advancing indicator plus pop-up film rewind & film release when pulled up to the second position located on the top left of the camera, a focus range of 3.5ft (1m) to infinity, and a ¼ inch 20 thread tripod socket. The camera was introduced in 1958 and is Similar to Arette IC. The Arette series was produced from 1956 to 1959. Apparate und Kamerabau Gmbh was a camera manufacturer based in Friedrichshafen, Germany. It was formed by brothers Eugene and Max Armbruster in February 1946 and camera production continued until the mid-1960s.