Category: Photography

This is the Zeiss Historica Folio 1979 Newsletter with the following topics: Blah blah blah summary of this issue….

This is the Zeiss Historica Folio 1980 Newsletter with the following topics: Blah blah blah summary of this issue….

Zeiss Historica Fall 2015 In the early to mid 20th century, wide angle lenses were usually limited to 35mm or maybe even 28mm, so what would Zeiss have need for a 21mm viewfinder on a Zeiss turret? And what in the heck is a Cloud Projector?!  Read the Fall 2015…

Zeiss Historica Fall 2013 What is an automobile doing on the cover of the Fall 2013 catalog?  For those with a deep knowledge of Zeiss history, you’d know that they also made turn signals for cars and the this newsletter shows many examples of these curious relics. Pg 2. Zeiss…

Zeiss Historica Fall 2012 If you like lenses, the Fall 2012 Zeiss Historica has everything from Zeiss’s most popular lens, the Tessar, to an absolutely insane f/1.5 20 cm telephoto lens! Pg 2. Since 1902 the Zeiss Tessar has been one of the most successful and copied designs ever.  Here…

Zeiss Historica Fall 2011 Pimples are usually a bad thing, unless you’re a collector of early Contax rangefinders.  If yours has them, you’ll definitely want to check out the Fall 2011 issue. Pg 2. Part 2 of Herbert Ober’s story about Zeiss in London from 1945 to 1990. Pg 10. Goerz…

Zeiss Historica Fall 2010 Goerz was at one time Carl Zeiss’s biggest competitors in the lens market, and their merger with Zeiss in 1926 was a huge win for Zeiss.  The fall 2010 issue tells part of that story. Pg 2. The Contessa was Zeiss-Ikon’s answer to the Kodak Retina,…

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 Historica Fall 2016 In what would sadly be the very last issue of the Zeiss Historica newsletter, the Fall 2016 issue features the following stories. Pg 2. Three Alaskan explorers from the 1930s with Contax I rangefinders. Pg 4. A detailed look at how depth perception works with the…

Zeiss Historica Spring 2015 From Riflescopes to automotive headlights, 125 year anniversaries and two mysteries of war time and Chinese marked cameras, the Spring 2015 issue is full of mystery and intrigue. Pg 2. Teleweit and Telekipp were two early Zeiss Riflescopes that were produced from 1905 to 1914. Pg…

Zeiss Historica Spring/Fall 2014 Due to declining health of Larry Gubas, only a single issue of the Zeiss Historica Newsletter was published in 2014 as a combined Spring/Fall double issue. Pg 2. The growth of Carl Zeiss Oberkochen from 1947 – 2013.  After the war, a new location in Oberkochen was…

Zeiss Historica Spring 2012 The Contax bayonet lens mount was good enough for Nikon, but it certainly wasn’t perfect.  The Spring 2012 explores the merits of this lens mount, along with detailed articles about Retrofocus lenses, Zeiss Ikon’s only Bakelite camera, and Zeiss in Dresden. Pg 2. The Contax bayonet…