[rollei_list] Re: A Zeiss-Binocular Meet?

At 05:05 PM 8/27/2008, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
>Marc,
>
>Well then, the only way you doubting Thomases can see the camera is to
>come here to
>Southern California. :-)
>
>BTW,  WTF do you think is the genealogy of that Zeiss lens, or the Zeiss
>Ikon focal
>plane shutter body? >:o


Jerry
Do not be deliberately thick-witted and, pray, quit being snarky. The lens appears to be a genuine Zeiss product. The camera body is obviously not a Zeiss product, as Zeiss almost never makes camera bodies, but it certainly appears to be a Zeiss Ikon body, a parallel company owned by the same Foundation which also owns the Zeiss lensworks, the Schott glassworks, and the Deckel and Gauthier shutter companies.
During the Depression and after the end of the Second World War, skilled labor came VERY cheaply. Thus, there are all sorts of convesions and modifications floating about -- why not subscribe to the Internet Directory of Camera Collectors where the discussion of such is an almost-daily occurrence. I own a few Zeiss lenses in LTM which are obvious after-market modifications. Someone would own a Contax RF lens and would then pick up a Leica body and it was the cheapest thing to have your Contax RF lenses equipped with an RF cam. The going price for such modifications in New York and Chicago in the late 1940's was around $5 or $10 a lens.
In camera collecting and photo-historical circles, the presumption is that such things are after-market products unless some sort of provenance can be established such as factory paperwork or the like.
So, yes, the camera you mention certainly seems to be an aftermarket marriage of a Zeiss lens and a Zeiss Ikon body. No one has ever found a catalogue entry for such an offering by Zeiss Ikon itself, and some of those researching this have comprehensive sets of Zeiss and Zeiss Ikon catalogues. 

Marc


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