A weird and wornderful ting

[jaapv]

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Das optisches Nahgeraet "Contameter" made by Zeiss Ikon A.G.Dresden:

 

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[jaapv]

And it works!!

[chetccox]

I found one of these, but it is a contameter II, made for zeiss contax IIa and IIIa. What size are the closeup lenses, and will this 'II' work on the m8?

[jaapv]

Yes it works, standard 39 mm lenses, 50 mm only. Mine is for Contax and Nettel

[lars_bergquist]

Contameters were made also for other cameras, including the folding square format rangefinder Super Ikonta. Retina cameras too used a similar device, which was continuously variable. It is pretty useless for people who wear spectacles.

 

The old man from the Age of the Folding Retinas

[jaapv]

I wear spectacles . Still it works fine Interesting, I did not know Zeiss Ikon built them as a general accesory.

[lars_bergquist]

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I wear spectacles . Still it works fine Interesting, I did not know Zeiss Ikon built them as a general accesory.

 

They didn't – they were always for single camera models. In fact, there were different Contameters for the Contax I–II and the III, because on the III the Contameter sat in the accessory shoe on top of that high light meter housing, so its corrections for parallax had to be different.

 

The old man from the Age of the Folding Retinas