Pico
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jaapv
RFF Sponsoring Member.
6x9 format.
Photar
Established
Combat Graphic. 6x7 format, AFAIK.
markinlondon
Elmar user
On 70mm movie stock, no less!!
Mark
Mark
lubitel
Well-known
I think there was a link to this giant on eboy a while ago, didnt realize its so huge though.
ZeissFan
Veteran
This camera is often referred to as "Gulliver's Contax" and was the brainchild of Hubert Nerwin, a Zeiss Ikon camera designer who gave us Tenax II, the folding Ikonta, Contina (II) and Contessa. He also directed design of the Contax II, Ikoflex III, Super Ikonta, Super Nettel, Nettax and a number of others.
You can read more about him here.
You can read more about him here.
bmattock
Veteran
ZeissFan said:
You can also say that Hubert Nerwin is the father of the SLR design we see today. It was his initial work on the SLR design during WWII (though forbidden to do so, he continued on his own time) that was used by Zeiss Dresden to create the Contax S, which anyone can glance at and see the immediate resemblance to all modern SLR camera.
As Marc Small, et al, pointed out, the Combat Graphic was as ill-fated as many of Zeiss's designs - they made superior cameras and it seemed they could just never catch a break!
The Contina II remains one of my favorite cameras. In terms of silky quality of manufacture, I'd put it up against any Leica or Contax ever made. It is a just a fine mechanism that is a joy to hold. However, not being a RF or an SLR, it has no real significance in today's terms.
Best Regards,
Bill Mattocks
Pico
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Other features of the camera...
Spring-motor drive (approx 10 exposures per wind).
Up to 50 pictures per cassette.
A red glass 'flag' in the finder indicates that it needs to be rewound.
Bay lenses (Wide, Normal, Long) and the lens hoods are bay-style. Filters are held by lensshade. (I have never found the wide lens. Even the milspec and doc is ambigous as to whether it was issued.)
focal-plane shutter t,b to 1/500. shutter release in on the back, upper-right corner (thumb activated). accepts cable release.
Focusing/viewing frame shifts to accomodate parallax and changes size (a moving, solid mask) to accomodate different lenses.
Exposes numbers onto the film edge using an internal rotating disk (coupled with film counter). The middle window in the picture is for that purpose. Visual winding indicator (besides counter).
The flash works with either smaller or screw-base bulbs (and while it is messy, it can actually fire both at once.) Also has X synch, but no PC style outlet on the body or lenses. Switch for bulb-delay is on-camera.
A internal film cutter so that you can change films mid-roll or shoot a short roll.
The 'cross hair' finder on top works for all three lenses (but is needed only for the wide lens). Turning the finder 180 degrees switches from normal to tele finder.
There's even a 'log plate' for note-taking that slides onto the back.
And surprisingly, it's even fairly quiet.
Spring-motor drive (approx 10 exposures per wind).
Up to 50 pictures per cassette.
A red glass 'flag' in the finder indicates that it needs to be rewound.
Bay lenses (Wide, Normal, Long) and the lens hoods are bay-style. Filters are held by lensshade. (I have never found the wide lens. Even the milspec and doc is ambigous as to whether it was issued.)
focal-plane shutter t,b to 1/500. shutter release in on the back, upper-right corner (thumb activated). accepts cable release.
Focusing/viewing frame shifts to accomodate parallax and changes size (a moving, solid mask) to accomodate different lenses.
Exposes numbers onto the film edge using an internal rotating disk (coupled with film counter). The middle window in the picture is for that purpose. Visual winding indicator (besides counter).
The flash works with either smaller or screw-base bulbs (and while it is messy, it can actually fire both at once.) Also has X synch, but no PC style outlet on the body or lenses. Switch for bulb-delay is on-camera.
A internal film cutter so that you can change films mid-roll or shoot a short roll.
The 'cross hair' finder on top works for all three lenses (but is needed only for the wide lens). Turning the finder 180 degrees switches from normal to tele finder.
There's even a 'log plate' for note-taking that slides onto the back.
And surprisingly, it's even fairly quiet.