Zeiss Ikon Contessamat SBE (1965)

Zeiss Ikon Contessamat SBE (1965)

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Características

Zeiss Ikon is a German company that was formed in 1926 by the merger of four camera makers (Contessa-Nettel, Ernemann, Goerz and Ica), and an infusion of capital by Zeiss. The company formed one part of the Carl Zeiss Foundation, another part being the optical company Carl Zeiss. Logically, most of the Zeiss Ikon cameras were equipped with Carl Zeiss lenses and the formerly independent companies, in particular Goerz, had to shut down their own lens manufacture. The merged company was also obliged to use Compur shutters for 80% of its cameras. Thus only the simplest cameras could get cheaper shutters like the Klio. Soon AG Hahn für Optik und Mechanik, Kassel, and Goerz Photochemisches Werk GmbH, Berlin, joined the Zeiss Ikon syndicate. The group became one of the big companies in the phototechnical capital Dresden, with plants in Stuttgart and Berlin. Until WWII Zeiss Ikon was the world's market leading maker of 8mm movie cameras.

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Contessamat is a series of 35mm film viewfinder / rangefinder cameras manufactured by Zeiss Ikon AG., Stuttgart, former West Germany and produced between 1963-67.

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The Contessamat series filled the market niche left by the discontined Contessamatic and Contessa 35 series. The Contessamat SBE was the top of the line in this series. It had a coupled rangefinder, a coupled exposure meter, a 50/2.8 Tessar in Prontormatic shutter and flash contacts on the top, with a flash automation system which can link the aperture setting to the distance setting. The product code was 10.0652, and it was available from 1963-67.
The next step down was the Contessamat STE. But it lacked the flash automation feature and was only sold in 1965 and was product code 10.0656.

Fonte: Pacificrimcamera.com


Especificações

SBE is the most sophisticated one of Contessamat series
Produced between 1963-1967
Rangefinder
Lens:Tessar 50mm f/2.8
Shutter: Prontor-Matic 500SL
For flash photography SBE has a a system to couple distance and aperture rings; when focusing the rangefinder the aperture sets simultaneously.

Fonte: Camerapedia


Modelo

A minha tem o n.º de série D93818 e a lente o n.º 3759082.


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