Brillant series
The Brillant camera range is very large.It can be roughly split in two parts:
1- metal cameras (from 1932 to 1937) The serial number begins with a letter (D-1932 to J-1937)
2- bakelite cameras (from 1937 to 1951) No serial number
These cameras have a large non focusing lens, actually a brilliant finder.
The Brillant S (or Focusing Brillant) is the only one with a finder lens coupled with the taking lens.
A large variety of lenses and shutters were fitted on these cameras.
The metal cameras even had the front panel written in different languages :
German, English (their name became "Brilliant"), Czech, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish.
Brillant (French) |
Brillant (Czech)
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Brilliant (English)
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Brillant (French)
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Brillant
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Brillant (French)
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Brillant (German)
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Brillant (Spanish)
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Brillant V6
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Brillant V6
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Brillant V6
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Brillant V6
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Focusing Brillant
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Focusing Brillant
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