"New" Super Ikonta B

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Here is the first scanned image from my Zeiss Super Ikonta B, with the Opton-Tessar. Plain negative scan, no manipulation except for size and resolution. Fuji Acros 100 @ ISO100, with commercial development. Camera is in excellent contidion with a small transport mechanism issue, I think. Pretty mundane shot, but the old beaters turn my crank.

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Thanks.
 
If the transport problem is uneven spacing, check out the older style film with the thicker film base like Fomapan (Freestyle Arista.EDU Ultra). You have "THE" classic camera in that ZSIB.
 
I'm prety sure you can avoid overlapping frames by wrapping the take up spool w/ tape to make it a little larger. I had one of these cameras too. The Beast! Big, heavy, but what great build quality. Mine never overlapped, but the frames got closer and closer as the roll went on.
 
Yeah, I have really close frame spacing on some films (like Tri-X). I'll look tonight and see what film gave me wide frame spacing.
 
Hi!!!
Congratulations!
I have a 532/16 coated tessar lens, what a camera, i don´t find it so big, folded is easy to deal with!
For me the best is using colour film, of course B/W is awesome too!

Yeah, spacing problems...but´s fixable!

You´ll have to practice a bit the parallax compensation when shooting portraits :cool:

Bye!!!
 
The spacing is controlled by a hand-cut brass disk that's part of the film advance gearing. I think the idea of wrapping the takeup spool with some tape is a sound one.

Mine also never overlapped, although they did get close on some frames.

The Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta B 532/16 is a mouthful to say and is quite a hefty camera. Excellent construction and choice of materials. As long as it hasn't been dropped, it's well worth the effort of a restoration.
 
Well, thanks everyone for looking and for the comments. Thanks, too, for the encouragement about the film advance. It's not such a big problem, but the rest of the camera is in such good shape that it is hard to imagine this being defective. I'll try some Foma film, for sure.
 
I got this idea from one the Folder repair people. I cut a 2 inch long piece of 2 inch wide masking tape and put it on the paper leader up next to the paper tab that slides into the take-up spool. Then just load normally. It works perfectly for me. I just cut about a dozen 2 inch strips and roll them onto something like a old medicine bottle or even an extre plastic film spool. The same website mentioned to just roll a couple of turns of paper past the start arrow on the paper film leader. I haven't tried that but it's supposed to work. Jim
 
barnwulf said:
The same website mentioned to just roll a couple of turns of paper past the start arrow on the paper film leader. I haven't tried that but it's supposed to work. Jim
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it does. that's what i do. by this you give a head start to film spacing (but they do get smaller and smaller at the end).
 
Originally posted by Pherdinand

it does. that's what i do. by this you give a head start to film spacing (but they do get smaller and smaller at the end).
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I have a Zeiss Super Ikonta III and IV. One has very even spacing and the other has some variation in width even though I load them the same. I am not sure which one has the variation since I sent off rolls from both cameras for processing at a lab. I will have to keep track of rolls a little better. Jim
 
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