The Vario is a long-lived series of leaf shutters that were made by the German company Gauthier based in Calmbach.

The Vario appeared in 1912, the same year as the Pronto, and both shutter models were modified in 1929.^[1]

Most Vario shutters have 25, 50, 100, B, T speed settings. Another wide-spread variant has the speeds 1/25 sec., 1/50 sec., 1/200 sec., and B. After (during?) World War I Vario shutters were copied by the French manufacturer Gitzo and marketed under a number of names ('Platos', 'Plavicos', 'Vistar', 'Gitzo' (see Gitzo Shutters).

Notes Edit

1. ↑ Shunkan o torae-tsuzukeru shattā-ten, p. 6.

Bibliography Edit

• Kamera no mekanizumu sono I: "Hai! Chīzu" Shunkan o torae-tsuzukeru shattā-ten (カメラのメカニズム・そのⅠ・「ハイ！チーズ」瞬間をとらえ続けるシャッター展, Camera mechanism, part 1 "Cheese!" Exhibition of instant taking shutters). Tokyo: JCII Camera Museum, 2002. (Exhibition catalogue, no ISBN number)

Links Edit

• A discussion of the postwar Compur-Rapid and Synchro-Compur models in a page by Andrew Yue about the Agfa Isolette
• Repair notes of a rimset Compur and of a Compur-Rapid at Daniel Mitchell's camera site
• Synchro-Compur servicing at Roland and Caroline's website
• Compur shutters at S.K. Grimes
• www.kamera-geschichte.de - Huge overview over shutter types and models (German)