[rollei_list] Re: OT: Contax II
- From: Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 12:07:01 -0800 (PST)
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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