Contax S camera
VEB Carl Zeiss Ikon Jena, East Germany. Solid body 35mm refelx camera for 35mm film 24x36mm. Zeiss, Jena, Tessar lens F:5cm f/3.5-22, No 3220957, interchangeable, screw thread, helical focusing through pentaprism. Fabric focal plane shutter, horizontal travel 1/2/5/10/20/50/100/200/500/1000/B, delayed action lever. Body release, with lock-on time exposures. Film type and speed indicator on rewind knob. Knob windon.
Contax S, made by VEB Zeiss Ikon in Germany, 1949.
Solid body 35mm refelx camera for 35mm film 24x36mm. Zeiss, Jena, Tessar lens F:5cm f/3.5-22, No 3220957, interchangeable, screw thread, helical focusing through pentaprism. Fabric focal plane shutter, horizontal travel 1/2/5/10/20/50/100/200/500/1000/B, delayed action lever. Body release, with lock-on time exposures. Film type and speed indicator on rewind knob.
The Contax S was launched at the Leipzig Spring Fair in 1949. It was an innovative camera, and had a fixed eyelevel pentaprism finder. Together with the Rectaflex and the Alpa Prisma Reflex, the Contax S was one of the first pentaprism SLRs.
Details
- Category:
- Photographic Technology
- Collection:
- Kodak Collection
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/3923
- Materials:
- leatherette, white metal (unknown) and glass
- type:
- 35mm camera and single lens reflex camera
- credit:
- The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
