This is a Mercury II Model CX half-frame 35mm camera made by the Universal Camera Company out of New York, NY. The Mercury II was an update to the original Mercury Model CC that added support for normal 35mm film rather than the proprietary Univex film used in the original. …
On December 12, 2014, I published my first film camera review on Mike Eckman dot Com for the Argus C3 Match-Matic. At the time I wrote the review, I thought I would just share some information I had learned about a cool old camera I had picked up on eBay.…
This is a Tenax II, an interchangeable lens 35mm rangefinder camera made by Zeiss-Ikon in Dresden starting in 1938. It shot 24mm x 24mm square images on regular 35mm film and was created by famed designer Hubert Nerwin who previously designed the Contax rangefinder. It was an unusually designed camera…
Zeiss Historica Spring 1981 In this, the third Zeiss Historica Newsletter, and the first semi-annual publication, it is clear the editors were off to a great start. This issue features memories of Hubert Nerwin of Contax and Tenax fame, a list of Zeiss observatory telescopes in the US, an optical…
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