[rollei_list] Re: OT: Contax II
- From: Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 01:34:12 -0800 (PST)
Thank you Daniel, I'll try to contact him.-
Carlos
--- El jue 6-nov-08, Daniel Ridings <dlridings@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:
> De: Daniel Ridings <dlridings@xxxxxxxxx>
> Asunto: [rollei_list] Re: OT: Contax II
> Para: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fecha: jueves, 6 de noviembre de 2008, 5:23 pm
> 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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