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. The name was first used by Zeiss Ikon in 1935 for a 35mm Twin-lens reflex camera, the Contaflex TLR; for the earlier TLR, the -flex suffix referred to the integral reflex mirror for the viewfinder. The first SLR models, the Contaflex I and II (introduced in 1953) have fixed lenses, while the later models have interchangeable lenses; eventually the Contaflexes became a camera system with a wide variety of accessories.
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....
camera Contaflex TLR Box Tengor Model 54, c. 1932 Contax I rangefinder camera (1932–36) ContaflexSLR Icarex 35 SLR Contarex 1 ("Bullseye") SLR Voigtländer...
1962. Zeiss Ikon also produced several SLR camera lines starting from the 1950s, including the ContaflexSLR, Contarex, Bessamatic (as Voigtländer, which...
market above the ContaflexSLR, which was intended for advanced amateurs, but below the Contarex line for professionals. Icarex SLRs were manufactured...
best-known of which was the Contaflex of 1935, but for the most part these met with little success. The first major post-war SLR innovation was the eye-level...
scale is mirrored into the viewfinder. Various models of Zeiss Ikon ContaflexSLR and Contessa cameras have built-in coupled match needle selenium meters...
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...
wide-angle 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...
concept was shared with the ContaflexSLR, although Contarex magazine backs are wider and physically incompatible with Contaflex cameras and vice versa. A...
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 lenses...
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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