page_title: Wirgin
section_title: Film
hierarchical_section_title: Wirgin / 16mm film / Film
caption_attribution_description: Edixa 16 Ektacolor film in RADA cassette
context_page_description: Wirgin was a German company which is still known for its brands Wirgin and Edixa, and for its camera types like the Edina, the Edinex or the Gewirette. It was based in the Hessian capital Wiesbaden and made a line of quite inexpensive 35mm SLRs from the 1950s to the 1970s, including the Edixa Reflex and Edixa-Mat Reflex. Wirgin was West Germany's main producer of SLRs with focal plane shutter. It also produced some of the lenses for its cameras, among them several M42 screw mount lenses.
  Wirgin was founded by the brothers Heinrich, Max and Josef Wirgin in 1920. They introduced their first distinctive camera in 1927, the Edinex, which they produced also as Adrette for Adox. In 1934 the company surprised the market with a very small viewfinder camera for type 127 film, the Gewirette. From the mid-1930s it also made Edinex 35mm viewfinder cameras. These came equipped with Wirgin Gewironar lens and Compur shutter or Steinheil Culminar lens with Prontor shutter.
  In 1938 Heinrich and Josef Wirgin were still in charge of their company in Wiesbaden. However, the Nazi persecution of the Jews compelled them to escape from Germany, with the help of one of their clerks.
context_section_description: Edixa16mm uses  Rollei 16 type RADA cartridge，loaded with unperforated 16mm film 。Film width 16mm，frame format 14x21mm，20 exposures per cartridge。
caption: Edixa16mm21DIN Ektacolor film
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