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Zeiss Ikon Contina viewfinder camera
The Contina is a viewfinder camera with a 45mm f/2.8 Pantar lens and an exposure control system which uses the EV (Exposure Value) system to set the exposure.
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Zeiss Ikon Contaflex Alpha
The Contaflex series was made by Zeiss for a long time and encompassed many model variations.
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Zeiss Ikon Nettar II type 517/16
This post describes a Zeiss Ikon Nettar II folding camera which was made in about 1949 and takes type 120 film
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Zeiss Ikon Contina I 35 mm folding camera.
The Zeiss Ikon Contina I is a 35mm camera with a set of bellows which allows the lens to be collapsed into the body of the camera making a slimmer, more compact camera.
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Repairing a Rusty Werra 1 camera – part one
The first part in a short series about how I tried to clean up a very rusty shutter from a Carl Zeiss Werra 1 camera
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Repairing a Werra 1 Camera – Part two
This is the second part of my post describing my adventures with a Carl Zeiss Werra 1 35mm viewfinder camera.
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Carl Zeiss Werra Mat strip down and refurbishment – part 1
The first part of a series describing how I stripped down and cleaned a Carl Zeiss Werra Mat 35mm camera.
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Carl Zeiss Werra Mat strip down and refurbishment – part 2
In this post I'm going to show how I cleaned the shutter of the Carl Zeiss Werra Mat and re-assembled it
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Carl Zeiss Werra Mat reassembly after strip down and refurbishment – part 3
Cleaning and re-assembling the Carl Zeiss Werra Mat camera after it's strip down and repair.
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Contaflex III sample film
Some sample photos from a Zeiss Ikon Contaflex III which shows that I have a light leak in my camera.
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