[rollei_list] Re: Carl Zeiss/F&H RB 50/30 aerial camera

A few years ago, whilst wandering amongst the junk at an international
militaria fair, I stumbled upon a large diameter, long tube. The top was
full of dust and straw but what caught my eye was that there was a glass
surface and the word Zeiss just visible. Blowing off the larger debris, I
could read 1000mm f5.6. The vendor wanted £10 for this Zeiss telephoto lens,
which was presumably off a reconnaissance camera. Sadly, the lens looked as
if it had been cared for by a militaria fanatacist rather than a camera
fanatacist and the optics were unusable. I had visions of being able to
adapt it to fit my SL66. The second deciding factor was that it had no iris
diaphragm within the unit.

John


On 09/11/2009 10:45, "CarlosMFreaza" <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It's a known fact F&H as civil firm did not manufacture significant
> militar equipment during the WWII, but they were required sometimes to
> do some specific work, the Carl Zeiss Reihenbild-Messkamera RB 50/30
> was one of them; this was a reconnaissance aerial camera with
> photogrammetric purpose. It was mounted on several Luftwaffe aircrafts
>  reconnaissance models, Bf 109 E6 and Focke Wulff 189 A among them, it
> was a large camera provided with motors for automatic work. It took
> 60% overlapped frames to do photographic maps or to use them
> stereoscopically; anyway the camera needed some parts and accesories
> to work that F&H did not manufacture, in other words the camera
> leaving the F&H factory was not operative yet.
> This is an image about the camera:
> 
> http://itarphotos.blogspot.com/2009/11/carl-zeiss-rb-5030-aerial-camera.html
> 
> and you can see here (second photograph) the same camera being removed
> from the Fw 189 A, I notice this is a technical and historical page on
> the WWII and contains real photographs about German aircrafts from
> that era:
> http://www.airrecce.co.uk/WW2/recce_ac/LuftAR2.html
> 
> Carlos
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