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Published in Zeiss Historica Journal Author: Charles Barringer See Pages 21 – 22. In the years immediately after World War II, many Zeiss Ikon folding cameras had an additional character attached to the serial number impressed onto the leather covering of the camera. The character was an asterisk. Mar 27, 2018 The Zeiss-Ikon Contessa 35 was the third new camera produced by Zeiss-Ikon’s Stuttgart factory after the war. It was designed by Hubert Nerwin, who also designed the Ikonta 35, Contaflex, SLR, Contax II, and Tenax cameras. The Contessa primarily competed with the Kodak Retina and shares it’s compact size.
Overview | |
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Type | 35mm SLR camera |
Lens | |
Lens mount | bayonet |
Focusing | |
Focus | manual |
Exposure/metering | |
Exposure | manual |
Flash | |
Flash | cold shoe |
Contaflex SuperB+Zeiss 8x30B monocular
- The camera back is removed completely to load film in the same way as with the pre-war Zeiss Ikon Contax rangefinder cameras, and a removable take-up spool of identical design is used. The film is advanced with the large knob at the right-hand side of the top cover, the shutter being automatically cocked at the same time.
- The serial number denotes a block of 99,999 serial numbers - not all of which were always issued: Z 1935/6, A 1936, B 1936, C 1936/7, D 1937, E 1937, F 1937/8. Zeiss Ikon Contax Iiia Serial Numbers Zeiss Ikon Contax Serial Numbers. One of my favourite vintage camera acquisitions, a 1951 Zeiss Contax IIa (Black Dial) with Zeiss Opton Sonnar.
The Contaflex series is a family of 35mmleaf-shutteredSLR cameras, produced by Zeiss Ikon in the 1950s and 1960s. The name was first used in 1935 on a 35mm Twin-lens reflex camera, the Contaflex TLR also by Zeiss Ikon, the -flex part in the name referring to integral mirror for the viewfinder. The first models, the Contaflex I and II have fixed lenses, while the later models have interchangeable lenses, and eventually the Contaflexes became a camera system with a wide variety of accessories.
History[edit]
The first Contaflex SLR was introduced in 1953 as one of the earliest 35mm SLR cameras equipped with a leaf shutter, but with a fixed lens. The Mecaflex was presented at photokina in 1951 and launched two years later with a leaf shutter behind the removable lens, while the Hasselblad 500C of 1957 has a leaf shutter in its interchangeable lens. This design, using a leaf shutter in an SLR, involves a complex sequence of events when the shutter is released, more looked upon as a challenge than a drawback at Zeiss Ikon, but no Contaflex model ever got a rapid return mirror. The advantages are low manufacturing costs, compactness and flash synchronization at all shutter speeds. However, only a very limited range of interchangeable lenses became available. For the models I and II, having a fixed lens, only three add-on converters were offered using a slide-on adapter, but from models III and IV onwards interchangeable lenses from 35mm to 115mm focal length were provided; at the time regarded as quite sufficient, as most would only be used with the standard lens anyway.
Three years later, during 1956, the Kodak Retina Reflex was launched, followed by the Voigtländer Bessamatic and the Ultramatic. The market soon flourished with leaf-shuttered SLR cameras. These mechanical complex cameras required precision assembly and high quality materials. More often than not many camera makes suffered from reliability issues, while the few better ones performed well, selling in quantity.
Contaflex I and II[edit]
Early Contaflex IV SLR Camera | |
Overview | |
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Type | 35mm SLR camera |
Focusing | |
Focus | manual |
Exposure/metering | |
Exposure | manual |
The Contaflex I, launched in 1953, was equipped with a fixed Zeiss Tessar 45mm f:2.8 lens with front-cell focusing. The very first Contaflex I had a Synchro-Compur shutter with the old scale of shutter speeds (1-2-5-10-25-50-100-250-500), but very soon it adopted the new scale 1-2-4-8-15-30-60-125-250-500.
The Contaflex II, introduced the following year, was the same camera with an uncoupled selenium meter added to one side of the front plate.
Both had a fixed lens but to the front of which could be attached a supplementary lens, called the Teleskop 1.7x.
Contaflex III and IV[edit]
The Contaflex III, launched in 1956, was the same as the I, but equipped with a Zeiss Tessar 50mm f:2.8 with helical focusing. The front element of the lens was removable and could be replaced by supplementary lenses, discussed in the section Contaflex lenses.
The Contaflex IV, introduced the same year, was the same camera with the uncoupled meter inherited from the Contaflex II.
Contaflex IV[edit]
Overview | |
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Type | 35mm SLR camera |
Focusing | |
Focus | manual |
Exposure/metering | |
Exposure | manual (1/500s max) |
Contaflex Alpha and Beta[edit]
The Contaflex Alpha and Contaflex Beta, both introduced in 1957, were based on the same body but equipped with a Zeiss Pantar 45mm f:2.8 three-element lens and a Prontor Reflex shutter up to 1/300. They were the cheaper models of the line.The Alpha had no meter and the Beta had the selenium meter of the II and IV.
The front element of the lens could be interchanged with others for 30mm f:4 and 75mm f:4. These could also be used on the Contina III 35mm viewfinder camera.
Contaflex Rapid and Super[edit]
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Type | 35mm SLR camera |
Focusing | |
Focus | manual |
Exposure/metering | |
Exposure | manual |
The Contaflex Rapid was introduced in 1958 and had a slightly longer body, a built-in accessory shoe, a winding lever and a rewind crank. It was the meterless version.
The Contaflex Super, launched the following year, was based on the Rapid and had a coupled selenium exposure meter on the front side of the prism. It is easily recognized by the wheel on the front plate for the setting of the film speed (DIN). The meter needle was visible in the finder as well as on the top plate from the outside. It is not to be confused with the Super (new) that will be discussed later.
The Rapid and Super could take the same supplementary lenses as the III and IV.
Contaflex Prima[edit]
Zeiss Lens Serial Number
The Contaflex Prima, launched in 1959 and sold until 1965, was based on the body of the Rapid, but with the Pantar lenses and the Prontor shutter like the Alpha and Beta. The Prima had a coupled exposure meter placed on the side of the front plate, different from that of the Super.
The Prima could take the Pantar supplementary lenses like the Alpha and Beta.
Contaflex Super (new) and Super B[edit]
Contaflex Super B | |
Overview | |
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Type | 35mm SLR camera |
Focusing | |
Focus | manual |
Exposure/metering | |
Exposure | automatic/manual |
Contaflex Super B film back
Contaflex Super B Zeiss Ikon leather case
The Contaflex Super (new) and Contaflex Super B are very similar cameras. Both have a new body design, being longer with added bulk. The information about which came first is a bit contradictory in some reference books, but it seems the Super (new) was launched in 1962, introducing the new body design and a new selenium exposure meter in a prominent rectangle marked Zeiss Ikon in front of the prism. The aperture wheel was replaced by a more traditional aperture command, and the meter read-out was visible both on the exterior and in the finder.
The Super B was launched in 1963, and added a shutter-priority automatic aperture, and maybe some other small changes.
The new body of the Super (new) and Super B allowed them to take magazine backs, interchangeable with a partly exposed film inside. (Magazine backs, rare among 35mm cameras, were also supplied for the Contarex of Zeiss Ikon.)
From the Super (new) and Super B, the Zeiss Tessar 50mm f:2.8 lens was recomputed and supposedly performed better. They could still take the same supplementary lenses, with one exception discussed in the relevant section.
Contaflex Super BC and S[edit]
Zeiss Ikon / Carl Zeiss Jena Cameras
The Contaflex Super BC was introduced in 1965, and was a Super B with the selenium meter replaced by a CdS through-the-lens exposure meter. It still had a black rectangle marked Zeiss Ikon on the front of the prism, but it was only decorative. It had a battery compartment at the bottom front.
The Contaflex S was the last variant, introduced in 1968, and was simply a renamed Super BC. It had a black rectangle marked Contaflex S on the front, and a different, newer Zeiss Ikon logo. It proudly sported the word Automatic on the front of the shutter.
The Super BC and S could take the magazine backs, as well as the usual supplementary lenses.
Both the Contaflex Super BC and S were, along with the 126-format Contaflex 126, available in chrome or black finish.
Former Zeiss-Ikon chief designer Hubert Nerwin, who designed the famous CONTAX 2 and 3 (besides other cameras for Zeiss-Ikon) later invented the 126 film cassette. This was after he emigrated to the U.S. after World War 2 and was working for Kodak.
Contaflex lenses[edit]
We have already seen that the Contaflex I and II could only take the Teleskop 1.7x supplementary lenses, and that the Alpha, Beta and Prima had their own limited range of Pantar supplementary lenses.
The models III, IV, Rapid, Super, Super (new), Super B, Super BC and S all have a Zeiss Tessar 50mm f:2.8 lens (27mm screw-in or 28.5mm push-on filters) with interchangeable front element.All of them can take a small range of supplementary lenses:
- Zeiss Pro-Tessar 35/4 (49mm filters), later replaced by the Pro-Tessar 35/3.2 (60mm screw-over filters)
- Zeiss Pro-Tessar 85/4 (60mm screw-over filters), later replaced by the Pro-Tessar 85/3.2 (60mm filters)
- Zeiss Pro-Tessar 115/4 (67mm filters)
- Monocular 8x30B, equivalent to a 400mm lens (attaches to the 50mm f/2.8 Tessar lens).
There was also a Zeiss Pro-Tessar M 1:1 supplementary lens, that kept the focal length of 50mm but allowed 1:1 reproduction. The effective speed of the M 1:1 lens is f/5.6.The 50mm standard front elements, as well as the Pro-Tessar M 1:1 elements, were different between the early models III, IV, Rapid and Super with the old model of Tessar, and the later models Super (new), Super B, Super BC and S with the recomputed Tessar. It appears that the mount was very slightly modified, and it seems physically impossible to mismatch the elements as the journal diameterabove the bayonet mount had been reduced by approximately .006'
There were also stereo attachments:
- Steritar A for the Contaflex I and II
- Steritar B for the other Tessar-equipped models
- Near Steritar for close up stereo pictures .2 – 2.5 meters
Zeiss-Ikon Nettar 516/2, What Year? | Photo.net Photography ...
(Normally interchangeable with the older Tessar line of Steritar B camera lenses)
- Steritar D for the Pantar-equipped models
A complete line of these Contaflex Steritar lenses can be seen at (https://www.flickr.com/photos/12670411@N02/)
Zeiss Proxar for Contaflex: 1M,0.5M,0.3M,0.2M and 0.1M
Contaflex 126[edit]
Overview | |
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Type | 126 SLR camera |
Focusing | |
Focus | manual |
Exposure/metering | |
Exposure | manual |
The Contaflex 126 is a completely different body. Its only relation to the rest of the Contaflex family is its name. It was introduced in 1967 to accept Kodak 126 (Instamatic) cartridges. It was one of the very few SLRs taking 126 film, and one of the very few ambitious cameras using that film. (Two other examples of 126 SLRs are the Rolleiflex SL26 and Kodak Instamatic Reflex.)
The Contaflex 126 is an SLR with a focal-plane shutter and interchangeable lenses. It was available in chrome or black finish.
The range of lenses was:
- Zeiss Distagon 25/4
- Zeiss Distagon 32/2.8
- Zeiss Pantar 45/2.8, three-element, cheaper
- Zeiss Tessar 45/2.8, four-element, better
- Zeiss Sonnar 85/2.8
- Zeiss Tele-Tessar 135/4
- Zeiss Tele-Tessar 200/4
The Contaflex 126 lenses are often confused with other lenses by the sellers. They can only be used on the Contaflex 126 body, that can only take the obsolete 126 cartridge, so the value of these lenses is not very high, despite their famous names.
The Weber SL75[edit]
When Zeiss Ikon stopped making cameras in 1972, they had prototypes in various stages of development. One of them was the SL725, which would be a successor to the Contaflex line with an electronic shutter. The prototype ended in the hands of a company named Weber, which presented the camera at a photokina show under the name Weber SL75, but could not afford to put it into production, and did not find a partner to do so.The lens mount was a modification of the Contarex camera lens mount. Carl Zeiss advertised a range of lenses for the Weber SL75, all with the T* multicoating:[1]
- 18/4 Distagon
- 25/2.8 Distagon
- 35/2.8 Distagon
- 50/1.4 Planar
- 85/2.8 Sonnar
- 135/2.8 Sonnar
- 200/3.5 Tele-Tessar
An eBay seller seems to have uncovered a small stock of the Planar lens, and has recently sold a couple of them.[citation needed]No SL75 body seems to have surfaced though, and the only picture found on the web is here.
Accessories[edit]
- Slip on metal lens hood
- Screw in metal lens hood
- Film back
- Zeiss Proxar lens set
Notes[edit]
- ^Source: Zeiss prospectus from 1974.
Bibliography[edit]
- Freytag, H, The Contaflex Way, Focal Press, 3rd ed, 1959
- Barringer, C. and Small, M. Zeiss Compendium East and West — 1940–1972. Small Dole, UK: Hove Books, 1999 (2nd edition). ISBN1-874707-24-3.
External links[edit]
- (in Japanese)Contaflex II and Contaflex S at La Chambre Claire
- (in French)Contaflex 126 at www.collection-appareils.com by Sylvain Halgand
- (in French)Contaflex II at www.collection-appareils.com by Sylvain Halgand
- (in French)User manuals, Ads about Contaflex at www.collection-appareils.com by Sylvain Halgand
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When Ica Tosca and Ernemann Heag XII had been up to date, Ica and Ernemann still were concurrents in Dresden. Both were merged into Zeiss Ikon in 1926. image by Martin Hilber(Image rights) |
Zeiss Ikon is a German company that was formed in 1926 by the merger of four camera makers (Contessa-Nettel, Ernemann, Goerz and Ica), and an infusion of capital by Zeiss[1]. The company formed one part of the Carl Zeiss Foundation, another part being the optical company Carl Zeiss. Logically, most of the Zeiss Ikon cameras were equipped with Carl Zeiss lenses; and the formerly independent companies, in particular Goerz, had to shut down their own lens manufacture.
The merged company was also obliged to use Compur shutters for 80% of its cameras. Thus only the simplest cameras could get cheaper shutters like the Klio. Soon AG Hahn für Optik und Mechanik, Kassel, and Goerz Photochemisches Werk GmbH, Berlin, joined the Zeiss Ikon syndicate. Both companies, Zeiss Ikon and Hahn, were also in the business of producing keys, latches an lock cylinders. This business was more and more concentrated in the former optical factories of Goerz in Berlin.
The group became one of the big companies in the photo technology capital Dresden, with plants in Stuttgart and Berlin. It continued several products of its constituents for a while, but also created new ones like the quality folder Ikonta and the medium format rangefinder camera Super Ikonta. Until WWII Zeiss Ikon was the world's market leading maker of 8mm movie cameras. In addition to cameras and lenses, Zeiss Ikon also produced some optics for medical applications.
Zeiss Ikon Camera Serial Numbers
- 435mm
- 5120 film
- 8Plate models
- 9VEB Zeiss Ikon (Zeiss Ikon East)
- 14Other Optics
West Germany: Zeiss Ikon AG Stuttgart
After World War II Zeiss Ikon was split into a West German and an East German part. It was reformed in West Germany, and trademark disputes followed with the part that was left in East Germany. Stuttgart became the company's domicile. Zeiss Ikon merged in the mid 1960s with Voigtländer, another important German manufacturer, and one that had been controlled by the Zeiss Foundation since 1956.
1938 ad scanned by Nesster(Image rights) |
Zeiss Ikon plant, built 1936 at Glashütter Straße in Dresden by Emil Högg, who was also architect of the Ernemann Tower image by Danipuntocom(Image rights) |
The product lines of Zeiss Ikon Stuttgart were different from the East German company's products. The Ikophot light meters were made in Stuttgart.
Zeiss Ikon ceased the production of cameras in 1972. This was a great shock for the entire German camera industry. Parts of the Zeiss Ikon product line then went to Rollei, and part of the know-how was used to revive the Contax name in collaboration with the Japanese maker Yashica.
Before reunification the whole Zeiss Ikon keys, latches & locking cylinder business was separated into a separate company.
East Germany: VEB Zeiss Ikon Dresden
Photo industry in Stuttgart |
Contessa | Contessa-Nettel | Drexler & Nagel | Ebner | Hauff | Kenngott | Kodak AG | G. A. Krauss | Nagel | Zeiss Ikon |
Camera industry in Dresden |
Balda | Certo | Eho-Altissa | Ernemann | Feinmess | Heyde | Hamaphot | Huth | Hüttig | ICA | Ihagee | Kochmann | Kerman | KW | Eugen Loeber | Ludwig | Mentor | Merkel | Meyer | Mimosa | Pentacon | Richter | Unger & Hoffmann | Werner | Wünsche | Zeiss Ikon | Zeh |
Camera distributors in Dresden |
Stöckig |
Camera industry in Freital |
Beier | Pouva | Thowe | Welta |
Postwar production, begun early in May 1945, was soon interrupted as several factories were closed for dismantling their production machines. The machines were given as reparation to Soviet camera makers that had suffered demolition during the war. The production of the sophisticated Contax rangefinder cameras was prepared in Dresden and relaunched with new machines in Jena before all the machines were transferred to the Soviet camera maker Kiev. In 1948 the East German part of Zeiss Ikon became state owned. Production and development of Ernemann projectors and movie cameras were continued from 1949. Camera production was continued in 1947 with the Tenax and the Ikonta models. Soon the company's stock of leaf shutters was running out. In 1950 it could produce its own shutters since it took over the shutter production of Balda and the shutter factory of Mimosa. In 1952 the Tempor was Zeiss Ikon's first own leaf shutter development, followed in 1954 by the Prestor, the fastest leaf shutter at this time.
In 1948 the company could introduce its advanced SLR model, the Contax S. Since there were suits about trade mark names with the West German Zeiss Ikon AG, VEB Zeiss Ikon was renamed VEB Kinowerke Dresden in 1958. Later it became the main part of the East German combine Pentacon.
After German reunification
Today Carl Zeiss is reviving the Zeiss Ikon name. The new Zeiss Ikon camera, introduced at the 2004 Photokina show, is a rangefinder camera with Leica M-mount, developed in Germany and built by Cosina in Japan. Like the Contax G1 and G2), it has lenses made in both Japan (by Cosina) and Germany.
Zeiss Ikon History Timeline Image by Eugene Ilchenko(Image rights) |
Zeiss Ikon (East) Dresden plant with Ernemann Tower image by Danipuntocom(Image rights) |
Zeiss Ikon (West) Berlin plant Goerzwerk image by Danipuntocom(Image rights) |
35mm
Zeiss Ikon systematically model-coded its produts with cameras, eever-ready cases, flashes etc all bearing their own codes. [2]
Interchangeable Lens Rangefinder
Dresden
Stuttgart
Contessamat
image by Inspiredphotos(Image rights)
Fixed Lens
- Contessa 35 (later models 1960-1973)
Folding
Contina II image by Alf Sigaro(Image rights) |
- Contina I / II
- Contessa 35 (1950-1955)
- Ikonta 35
SLR
- Contaflex I (1953-1958)
- Contaflex II (1954-1959)
- Contaflex III (1956-1958)
- Contaflex IV (1956-1959)
- Contaflex Alpha (1957-1960)
- Contaflex Beta (1957-1958)
- Contaflex Prima (1959-1965)
- Contaflex Rapid (1958-1960)
- Contaflex Super (1959-1963)
Contarex Super image by René Maly(Image rights) |
- Contaflex Super (new) (1964-1966)
- Contaflex Super B (1962-1965)
- Contaflex Super BC (1965-1968)
- Contaflex S (1968-1971)
- Contaflex 126 (1967-1971)
- Contarex I ('Bullseye' or the 'Cyclops')(1959-1966)
Together with Voigtländer:
Zeiss Ikon Icarex 35 CS TM image by Vagn Sloth-Madsen(Image rights) |
TLR
120 film
Zeiss Ikon systematically model-coded its produts with cameras, eever-ready cases, flashes etc all bearing their own codes.[2]
Folding
- Bob 510 (alternative name for Nettar 510)
- Simplex
- Ikonta (follow link for all models)
- Super Ikonta (follow link for all models)
TLR
- Ikoflex (850/16), first model (coffee can)
- Ikoflex I (850/16), later model (former Ikoflex II 851/16)
Box Tengor image by Pinot & Dita(Image rights) |
- Ikoflex Ia (854/16)
- Ikoflex Ib (856/16)
- Ikoflex Ic (886/16)
- Ikoflex II (851/16)
- Ikoflex IIa (855/16)
- Ikoflex III (852/16), became Ikoflex II in 1939
- Ikoflex III (853/16)
- Ikoflex Favorit (887/16)
- Tengoflex (85/16), pseudo TLR
Box
- Baldur (51 and 51/2)
- Erabox (52 and 52/2)
127 film
Piccolette image by Dirk HR Spennemann(Image rights) |
- Ikonette (folding, 127, c.1929)
Other film
Plate models
Folding bed
Tropen Adoro image by Geoff Harrisson(Image rights) |
- Victrix (4.5x6)
- Maximar A (6.5×9) & B (9×12)
- Ideal 250/3 (6.5×9cm)
- Ideal 250/7 (9×12cm)
- Ideal 250/9 (10×15cm)
- Ideal 250/11 (13×18cm)
- Onito 127/6 (9x12cm)
- Taxo 122/3 & 126/3 (6.5×9cm)
- Taxo 122/7 & 126/7 (9x12cm)
- Trona (9×12)
- Orix / Trix (10×15)
- Universal Juwel A (9×12) & B (13×18)
- Volta (9×12)
Strut folding
- Miroflex A (6.5×9) & B (9×12)
Box
VEB Zeiss Ikon (Zeiss Ikon East)
35mm SLR
- Contax D or Pentacon
Pentacon Ercona II image by Hans Kerensky(Image rights) |
- Contax E or Pentacon E
- Contax F or Pentacon F
- Contax FB or Pentacon FB
- Contax FM or Pentacon FM
- Contax FBM or Pentacon FBM
35mm Fixed Lens
- Tenax I and Taxona
120 folder
Zeiss Ikon / Cosina
- Zeiss Ikon (rangefinder camera)
- Zeiss Ikon SW (viewfinder)
Light Meters
Ikophot 53 image by Anssi Puisto(Image rights) |
Zeiss Ikon Body Serial Numbers | CI Photocommunity
- Diaphot (optical meter)
- Helicon
- Helicon (large model, combined with rangefinder)
- Helios
- Ikophot
- Ikophot 51
- Ikophot 53
- Ikophot CD
- Ikophot M
- Ikophot Rapid
- Ikophot S
- Ikophot T
- Kidiaphot (Cine version of Diaphot)
Flash
Zeiss Ikon Ikoblitz LD image by Hans Kerensky(Image rights) |
- Ikoblitz 5
- Ikoblitz 6
- Ikoblitz LD
Movie Cameras
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- Movikon (1930s)[3]
- Movikon 8 (1952)[4]
- Movikon 8B (1958)[5]
Other Optics
In addition to cameras and lenses, Zeiss Ikon also produced film and slide projectors, as well selected optics for medical applications
![Zeiss Zeiss](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/q1sAAOSwPiFefsm8/s-l300.jpg)
Hasselblad Flextight X1 And Imacon 848
Film Projectors
Zeiss Ikon Blutzucker-Kolorimeter D. image by Dirk HR Spennemann(Image rights) |
- 16 mm Projector (1943)[6]
- Kinox B Schmalfilmkoffer Projektor
- Kinox N375 - 16 mm Projector (1937)[6]
- Model W26615 - 16 mm Projector (1931)[6]
- Model W38553 - 16 mm Projector (1935)[6]
- Movilux 8 mm Projector (1959)[6]
- Movilux R 8mm Projector[7]
Slide Projectors
- Perkeo automatic S 150[8]
- Perkeo 315AF[9]
- Perkeo 315IR[9]
- Perkeo 315AV[9]
- Royal AF Selectiv IR slide projector
Medical applications
- Blutzucker-Kolorimeter D (blood sugar measuring device) 1928-1950s[10]
Bibliography
- Barringer, C. and Small, M. Zeiss Compendium East and West. 1940–1972. UK: Hove Books, 2nd edition, 1999. ISBN 1874707243.
- Dechert, Peter. The Contax Connection. Historical Camera Publications, 2007. Available for download in PDF at Peter Dechert's Corner
- Tubbs, D. B. Zeiss Ikon Cameras. 1926-39. UK: Hove Books, 1993. 190 pages. ISBN 1874707014.
References
- ↑ Reputedly, the word Ikon came from ICA and Contessa-Nettel, two of the constituents in the merger. Other sources claim that it is derived from the Greek, meaning image/picture.
- ↑ 2.02.1The codes are comprised of a two parts, one before and one after the /.
Back-end codes
/1 4.5x10.7cm plate (stereo) or 8x10.5cm rollfilm
/2 6x9cm on 120 (8 exposures)
/3 6.5x9cm sheet/plate
/4 13x18mm(?) stereo
/5 8x10.5cm plate
/6 5.5x3.25 inch (9x14cm) sheet or 8x14cm rollfilm (Kodak 122/3A)
/7 9x12cm sheet/plate
/9 10x15cm sheet/plate
/11 13x18cm (5x7 inch) sheet/plate, for US/UK market?
/12 4x6.5cm on 127 (8 exposures)
/14 5x7.5cm on 129 film
/15 6.5x11cm on 116
/16 6x6 on 120 (12 exposures)
/17 Quarter plate (3.25 x 4.25 inch)
/18 3x4cm on 127 (16 exposures)
/20 18x24cm sheet/plate
/24 24x36mm on 135 (standard 35mm)
/27 24x24mm on 135 - ↑Butowskis Auctions
- ↑Movikon 8
- ↑Description
- ↑ 6.06.16.26.36.4Zeiss Ikon page at Binocuclars and Cine Collectors
- ↑Youtube
- ↑Seen on eBay 2012
- ↑ 9.09.19.2Slide Projector manual by Santa via Flickr.
- ↑Zeiss Ikon Blutzucker-Kolorimeter D Dirk HR Spennemann via Flickr
Links
In English:
- Klaus-Eckard Riess's story, former Zeiss-Ikon (East AND West) employee
- Zeiss Ikon instruction manuals in butkus.org's Library
- Zeiss Ikon Price Guide at CollectiBlend
In German:
- cameras of Zeiss-Ikon's predecessors at Klaus-Eckard Riess homepage
- Company history at dresdner-kameras.de
- Story of Zeiss Ikon at phototechnik-online.de by Gerd Jehmlich (archived)
- Images of Zeiss Ikon cameras at www.amuseum.de
In French:
- Zeiss Ikon page at Collection G. Even's site
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