page_title: Wirgin
section_title: 16mm film
hierarchical_section_title: Wirgin / 16mm film
caption_attribution_description: Edixa 16M underside 1:film advance and shutter cocking lever 2:rewind crank 3:counter window 4:rewind lock
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: Edixa 16 series
  16mmsubminiature camera:Edixa 16、Edixa 16M、Edixa 16MB、Franka 16 
  Body Alunimiu body with plastic trims。
  Lenses，high end Edixa16MB，Edixa16M use Schneider Kreuznach Xena 25mm F/2.8 Tessar 4 element 3 group lens，mid range Edixa16 uses Travegar 25mm f/2.8 Tessar lens，the rest ues TRINAR Cooke triplet lens。
  Focusing dial：unit lens movement focusing，40mm to infinity。
  Shutter：four leave in front of the lens shutter，B，1/30，1/60，1/150。
caption: Edixa16mm bottom view
   :1：Film advance and shutter lever :2：rewind crank :3：counter :3：reverse lock
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