[rollei_list] Re: OT:Walter Voss Diax cameras
- From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:25:36 -0300
This is the only digital image I took yesterday with my P&S, you can
see from left to right the Contax II, Diax IIa and Rollei 35, the
direct flash light caused some strange reflections, I hope to take
better images with a better light to show the Diax IIa some
interesting details:
http://itarphotos.blogspot.com/2009/10/diax-iia-and-other-cameras.html
Carlos
2009/10/21 CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Elias,:
> I was trying to take some photographs with my P&S
> digital yesterday, but it became without battery charge after the
> first shot, now I'll take photographs with film cameras for the
> week-end probably and I'll upload some images to the web.
>
> Carlos
>
> 2009/10/21 Elias Roustom <eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> An now we await illustrations for this entertaining and informative text.
>>
>> E.
>>
>> On Oct 21, 2009, at 7:18 AM, CarlosMFreaza wrote:
>>
>>> I have received yesterday a 1954/55 Diax IIa 35mm camera with Xenon
>>> Schneider 2/50 lens, manufactured in the Walter Voss factory at "Ulm
>>> an der Donau" city, southwestern Germany, a real mechanical beauty. My
>>> father had the newer model Diax IIb with the same Xenon lens plus a
>>> Tele-Xenar 3.5/90 and a Xenagon 3.5/35mm with the additional
>>> viewfinder, this was the camera system that made me to think, from
>>> teenager, there were no true reasons for the Leica cameras price (my
>>> father also had a Leica IIIf that he sold in 1964 when he decided to
>>> leave the photography hobby, he kept the Diax IIb outfit and the 2.8C
>>> I'm still using, he afterwards lent the Diax to a friend of him and we
>>> no longer saw the nice outfit, but I could shoot with the camera).
>>>
>>> My "new" camera has coupled rangefinder with built-in viewfinders for
>>> 45-50mm and 85-90mm lenses, a dedicated Diax lens mount for
>>> interchangeable lenses, central leaf Synchro-Compur shutter similar
>>> regarding the Synchro- Compur used for the 2.8C but CR 000 size: B 1s
>>> to 1/500, built-in self timer, MX flash synchro. The Diax IIa and IIb
>>> have a very compact design closer to the Rollei 35 than to
>>> contemporary Leica and Contax models, the main difference for the two
>>> models is that the IIb has an elegant quick lever stroke to advance
>>> the film designed by Hans Logé, the engineer that also designed the
>>> Rolleimeter and the Stereo TLR camera prototype and the Rolleimarin
>>> for this model working for F&H.
>>> The Xenon 2/50 is an excellent lens derived from the original Planar 6
>>> elements design directly, the Xenon also has 6 elements with a very
>>> similar diagram regarding the original Rudolph's Planar diagram (it
>>> does not mean they are identical lenses, however the design concept is
>>> identical) and BTW it's excellent for color shots.
>>>
>>> I wrote to Peter Geisler, "Das DIAX-KAMERA-WERK Walter Voss
>>> Kleinbild-Kameras aus Ulm an der Donau 1947-1957" book author, that in
>>> spite of prices difference "... Diax cameras design look more compact
>>> and modern than some Leica and Contax contemporary models...", he
>>> answered: "I fully agree".
>>>
>>> Carlos
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