For example, the shutter on some models will not cycle and cock without film tensioning the wind sprocket (or being manually depressed while the back is open). More than a few of these cameras have been discarded as broken because of a failure to understand their nuances. One can feel stupid after learning the "tricks" of these cameras. The designers seemed to take joy in making the controls simple, sleek, functional-but not always obvious. Please note: Before you incorrectly conclude that any of these types of cameras not working via the usual look and listen tests of the shutter and what-not, make sure that you understand how they work.
LENSCARE DOF PHOTOSOHP MANUALS
Fortunately, you can find and download the operator manuals for each. These cameras are as amazingly crafted as any fine watch of the era.
LENSCARE DOF PHOTOSOHP HOW TO
You may not easily be able to figure out how to open the film back, and you may not readily understand how the shutter gets wound.
You won't just accidentally discover the retractable rewind unless you curiously stumbled upon the in-obvious button that pops it up. Many of the clever design features are typical of fine-German engineering of the era. Although I never used their products as a professional, I have admired the workmanship of these cameras I have collected-and the era they represented. Over the years they shared many business arrangements with Zeiss and Zeiss-Ikon they were finally bought out by Zeiss-Ikon during the mid-fifties.Įstablished photographers when I was just a budding photographer in the sixties revered Voigtlander products. The dominate much of the fine camera and lens business during the hundred years leading up to the production of these cameras. Voigtlander is an ancient optics company (began in the mid 1700s) that was making fine lenses for a hundred years prior to being among the first makers of cameras in the middle of nineteenth Century. These three models came out of the 1950s and 1960s. The cameras are made by an associate company of the famous German lens and camera maker and megacorporation- Zeiss-Ikon. These finely crafted instruments capture a golden era of German design and mechanical manufacturing at its finest. They are compact yet heavy and made to precision instrument standards not much found anymore. Three Wonderful Vintage Cameras from My Personal Collection: These are from the 1950s to 1960s Here is a chance to acquire three collectible Voigtlander Viewfinder Cameras.
LENSCARE DOF PHOTOSOHP SERIES
This Post mostly excepted from my eBay store description of this series of cameras I just listed. Although never intended as such this Weblog has become an important Resource in its Own Right Regarding Vintage Cameras-as Consulted by Photographers, Historians, and Collectors, Due in Part to the Photographer's Personal Use and Period Comments. Photographer Douglas Patrick Wright Provides an Interesting Personal Slant with his Personal Insight Into Half Century of Personal Photography Experience Including his own Transition from Film to Digital.
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