[rollei_list] Re: OT: Contax II

I found some detail here, Carlos:

http://photo.net/neighbor/view-one?subcategory=1&neighbor_to_neighbor_id=143749

Daniel


On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Carlos Manuel Freaza
<cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thank you very much Marc for the detailed info, I'll try to locate Eddie 
> Smoloff in Brooklyn.
>
> Carlos
>
>
> --- El jue 6-nov-08, Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
>
>> At 05:21 AM 11/6/2008, Carlos Manuel Freaza wrote:
>>
>> >If Marc is still interested about them, the camera
>> serial number is
>> >B33268 and the lens CZJ 2188792.-
>>
>> Of course I am still interested!
>>
>> Contax II B33268 is part of a batch of 3,000 such cameras,
>> the fifth Contax II batch.  I would suspect that this camera
>> was manufactured in late 1937, but that is only a surmise.
>>
>> 1.5/5cm CZJ Sonnar 2188792 is part of a batch of 3,000 such
>> lenses consturction of which ended on 13 DEC 1937.
>>
>> As others have noted, the Kiev RF cameras are offshoots of
>> the Prewar Contax II and III lines.  The lineage runs from
>> Dresden, the location for the factory in which your camera
>> was built, to the revived production line at Jena, whence
>> the "Jena Contax" , and the Jena line was
>> eventually moved to the Arsenal works at Kiev.  Some of the
>> early Kiev II cameras were actually assembled at Jena with
>> Cyrillic name-plates, and many of the early lenses also came
>> from Jena, with Cyrillic number-rings.
>>
>> As a result, parts are easily found for the Contax II, as
>> they are still available NOS from the Arsenal works.  (The
>> same situation does not exist for the Postwar Contax IIa and
>> IIIa cameras:  with these, parts are becoming scarce as none
>> have been produced in more than forty years.)
>>
>> I would most strongly urge you to send the camera and lens
>> to Eddie Smoloff in Brookly, NY.  Eddie was trained at the
>> factory on Kiev RF repairs and has a full range of parts
>> available.  Eddie is inexpensive, very professional, and
>> astonishingly fast.  I have only heard good things about
>> Henry Scherer but the delay in getting a camera back from
>> him is simply unacceptable.
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>
>>
>> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>>
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