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...
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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...
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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")...
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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...
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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...
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competing SLR cameras manufactured by Kodak (Retina Reflex) and Zeiss Ikon (Contaflex SLR) in Germany, rather than the focal plane shutter almost universally...
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with interchangeable lenses, along with the Koni-Omegaflex and Zeiss Contaflex. Extended bellows for close-ups Focusing hood and changeable screen Film...
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concept was shared with the Contaflex SLR, although Contarex magazine backs are wider and physically incompatible with Contaflex cameras and vice versa. A...
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cameras Kodak Instamatic Reflex Ricoh 126C-flex Rollei SL26 Zeiss Ikon Contaflex 126 The Instamatic was an instant success; more than 50 million Instamatic...
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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...
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127 film, was introduced by Ihagee Kamerawerk Steenbergen & Co. 1935 Contaflex: first 35 mm twin-lens reflex camera with interchangeable lens and the...
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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-...
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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...
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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...
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produced several SLR camera lines starting from the 1950s, including the Contaflex SLR, Contarex, Bessamatic (as Voigtländer, which had been acquired in...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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