The Mercury II camera model CX was manufactured by Universal Camera Corporation in circa 1945. Similar to the Model CC but now accepting standard 35mm film. The camera was capable of capturing sixty-five half-frame 18 x 24mm portrait exposures on 35mm roll film. It was constructed of aluminum alloy. It was fitted with a Universal Tricor f2.7 or f3.5 3, or a Hexar f2.0. The rotary focal plane shutter provided speeds of 1/20 to 1/1000th of a second. Other features included an automatic film transport to eliminate double exposures, Retractable lens mount locks shutter, film minder provides type of film and number of exposures, built-in exposure meter and built-in flash synchronization, built-in brillant parallax corrected view finder and 17 focusing graduations from 1/2 foot to infinity.

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