The Contaflex series is a family of 35mm Single-lens reflex cameras (SLR) equipped with a leaf shutter, produced by Zeiss Ikon in the 1950s and 1960s...

35CS, Icarex 35S, and SL 706, was aimed at a mid-range market above the Contaflex SLR, which was intended for advanced amateurs, but below the Contarex...

Ikonta folding rollfilm camera Contaflex TLR Box Tengor Model 54, c. 1932 Contax I rangefinder camera (1932–36) Contaflex SLR Icarex 35 SLR Contarex 1 ("Bullseye")...

competing SLR cameras manufactured by Kodak (Retina Reflex) and Zeiss Ikon (Contaflex SLR) in Germany, rather than the focal plane shutter almost universally...

used medium format film, a few 35 mm TLRs were made, the very expensive Contaflex TLR being the most elaborate, with interchangeable lenses and removable...

meter's scale is mirrored into the viewfinder. Various models of Zeiss Ikon Contaflex SLR and Contessa cameras have built-in coupled match needle selenium meters...

with interchangeable lenses, along with the Koni-Omegaflex and Zeiss Contaflex. Extended bellows for close-ups Focusing hood and changeable screen Film...

concept was shared with the Contaflex SLR, although Contarex magazine backs are wider and physically incompatible with Contaflex cameras and vice versa. A...

Pro Tessar 35 mm f/3,2 for use on the central-shutter SLR Zeiss Ikon Contaflex Super B cameras. Other Tessar lenses, for example those equipped on certain...

cameras Kodak Instamatic Reflex Ricoh 126C-flex Rollei SL26 Zeiss Ikon Contaflex 126 The Instamatic was an instant success; more than 50 million Instamatic...

127 film, was introduced by Ihagee Kamerawerk Steenbergen & Co. 1935 Contaflex: first 35 mm twin-lens reflex camera with interchangeable lens and the...

This had been used by Zeiss-Ikon in their mid-level cameras of their Contaflex series, and by Kodak in early interchangeable lenses for the top-end Retina...

II. There were also a few 35 mm TLRs, the best-known of which was the Contaflex of 1935, but for the most part these met with little success. The first...

proprietary Start mount directly. With the success of the Zeiss-Ikon Contaflex of the mid-1950s and its follow-ups in form of the Bessamatic, Retina-...

produced several SLR camera lines starting from the 1950s, including the Contaflex SLR, Contarex, Bessamatic (as Voigtländer, which had been acquired in...

Greene enrolled in a class and bought his first camera, a 1959 Icon Contaflex. He graduated from high school in 1960. In 1961, Greene took photography...

instead of f/4 or f/5.6). A similar system was introduced in 1953 with the Contaflex (SLR). The Retina Reflex is, on rare occasions, found with very similar...

uncoupled) was the Zeiss Ikon Contaflex (Germany) 35 mm twin-lens reflex (TLR) camera of 1935. 1953 Zeiss Ikon Contaflex I (West Germany): first leaf shutter...

which would pave the way for reputable camera designs such as the 1953 Contaflex, the 1956 Retina Reflex, the 1957 Hasselblad 500, and the 1959 Voigtländer...

interchangeable front element lenses such as for the 35 mm single-lens reflex Contaflex, and other types of cameras. Since the beginning of Zeiss as a photographic...