Zeiss Historica Spring 2016
The Goerz Hypergon is one of the strangest looking lenses ever made. A wide angle for medium and large format, it uses a star shaped aperture that helped control the amount of light that entered it.
Pg 2. Larry Gubas takes us through the early years of Zeiss-Ikon after their merger in 1926.
Pg 8. A Special Instrument for Theater Photography appears to be a one off camera built from a Ermanox camera using a 16.5cm f/1.8 Ernostar lens.
Pg 9. A Benchmark for Contax Prototype Lenses. Want to see a 1.9 cm f/8 super side angle lens in Contax mount?
Pg 17. The Zeiss Orthometar was an uncommon series of lenses that included the 3.5 cm f/4.5 shown in the article.
Pg 19. Contax cameras were sold with a whole host of accessories and lenses, and for the photographer who had many of them, a specialized case to carry everything was needed. Here is a look at a few of those cases.
Pg 20. The Elusive Bifort. Larry tells a story about how a picker in 1986 contacted him about an obscure pair of binoculars he had found and wanted more information on.
Pg 22. Most casual camera historians know that in 1926 Zeiss-Ikon was founded by merging 4 Dresden area optics companies together, but that only scratches the surface of many other smaller companies that are all part of the Zeiss-Ikon family tree.