TLR
Twin lens reflex camera that have separate viewing and actual exposure lens. Rollei still have one in production.
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TLR
Twin Lens Reflex camera. A fixed mirror replaces the SLR's flip-up mirror, so making this design very quiet. (Medium Format) 6cmx6cm. Rollei is the best known.
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Cameras which use a leaf shutter, such as a many twin lens reflex cameras (TLR) and many medium format cameras where the shutter is contained within the lens, not the camera body, can sync at any speed due to the way the shutter opens and closes.
I recently inherited what looks to be one of the first model Yashika-Mat twin lens reflex cameras (no meter and only 120 film). The top of the view finder has a symbol different from the later model's with the Y logo.
Parallax: The difference between the field of view seen through a camera's viewfinder and the image recorded on film by the taking lens of a twin lens reflex camera.
Parallax problems-This occurs mainly with range finder and twin lens reflex cameras. The distance between the center of the lens and the viewfinder causes parallax. The closer the lens is focused to the subject, the more evident the parallax.
These were made for people who feared to be seen as poor if they didn't run around with a two-eyed camera. The difference to the real twin lens reflex cameras is that the big lens for the reflex finder is cheap optics and far from being a twin of ...
Twin Lens Reflex Cameras: The twin lens reflex (TLR) was introduced in 1929 by Rollei. They were superseded by single-lens-reflex cameras with through-the-lens viewing.
 See also: Lens, Reflex, Image, Focusing, Focus
  
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