Exakta Times   Sixty-six  Spring 2007

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Editorial: Next International Exakta meeting:
  London 2008

We hope to hold the next International Meeting close to London, at a date to coincide with the Photographica Fair in May 2008. Planning is still in its very early stages, but we shall be reporting on progress through Exakta Times and through the website during 2007. Keep watching these spaces!

Membership Forms for 2007-08

For the first time, these forms are published in Exakta Times in English, French and German. The forms on the website are also published in English, French and German

Agenda and Map
   for the Spring Meeting, 29 April 2007

Notice that the Agenda is dated 29 April 2006, but this is just the Editor having a Senior Moment

Exakta Times statistics for 2006:

  Brief acknowledgment of the combined efforts of 56 members

Tom Ackermann: Sixty Years of Meyer Optik

Part 6 (final instalment): Pictures only: testing and packaging completed lenses

When a lens is fitted to a camera and set on infinity, a sharp image in the film plane should result. Therefore the fitting is measured to tiny fractions of a millimetre so that it corresponds exactly to the body measurements

Pictorial Section

More pictures from Leiden, some in colour; and colour pictures from the Summer Competition '06, from Hugo Ruys' Curiosities, and from here and there. We are delighted publicly to acknowledge the generosity of our President Sir Kenneth Corfield in making the Colour Section possible

One of Sidney Wood's entries to the competition: the extraordinary Pulsatilla praetensis, which is fortunately only about six inches high

Hugo Ruys: Ihagee Curiosities

Nos 12 to 17: Wooden Magnear; Carpet Underlay; modified Exas;
Commemorative medal

The Editor had his finger in his ear again while preparing these items for publication: they are shown as Nos 11 to 16. One of the pictures is of a very handsome medal made by the Dutch representative of Ihagee to honour a completely unknown person for an entirely obscure reason

Rik Middleton: At last, a digital Varex . . .?

A proposal for a digital device to take the place of the film and film spools in the camera body

Hugo Ruys: The Identification of Pre-War Ihagee Cameras

A key chart to help you to identify every pre-war Ihagee camera except the Exaktas. It is provided on a loose insert, so that you can take it to camera fairs in your briefcase!

North American Section

Jack Dugrew starts

Booklet Browsings from 7 members:

Bob Locke, Mark Stuecheli, Roger Beal, Brendan Hartz, Paul Spencer and Fred Warner

Letters from 8 members:

Roger Beal, Al Bresee, Jim Focht, Bob Locke and Bruce Sherman; and also from Hein Ehrhardt, Roland Henkel and Guy Woolley, who were not in North America last time we updated the Membership List

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