Exakta Times Sixty-eight Autumn 2007

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Editorial: changes to electronic addresses

Annual General Meeting, 14 October 2007:
Calling notice and Map

Resignation of Tom Ackermann as Chairman
Reminder of Summer photo competition: no restrictions this year!
Complete Membership List
Photograph of earliest members
Ihagee Calendar 2008

International Meeting 2008:
New Proposals for meeting in Oxford

Colour Pictorial Section:

Once again we are delighted publicly to acknowledge the generosity of our President Sir Kenneth Corfield
in making the Colour Section possible

Hugo Ruys: Ihagee Curiosities

Nos 24 to 27: Larger items

I own a Relatoscope, stored in its original beautiful box. I tried to use it, with disastrous results. Its depth-of-field is absolutely minimal, and it focuses at about 1cm, showing for example one key of a keyboard

Clair Snyder: My Exakta Journey

I found a used Exakta V at a photo shop in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I was told that this camera had been used by a person who travelled with US President Dwight D. Eisenhower. This was in the late fifties period. Some time later, I bought an Exakta VX, which was my favourite camera, and it served me well for many years

Article Section:

Tom Ackermann: The History of Carl Zeiss Jena

Part 2: Carl's Education and his First Business

The sudden closure of the whole Zeiss works in Jena by the West German Treuhand Organisation after the German re-unification in 1991 caused the disappearance of all their archives and factory records, which only resurfaced in 1994 and were then treated in three volumes by four of the most knowledgeable historians from within the Zeiss Works themselves and in the University of Jena

Michel Rouah and Hugo Ruys: Adapters for Exakta

Part 1: Introduction and German Adapters 1

For about twenty years from the start of the 1950s many manufacturers sold lenses that could be fitted to practically every make of SLR, by the use of interchangeable rings and ingenious mechanisms. The earliest firms to offer adaptable lenses were Novoflex and Kilfitt in Germany, from 1953. This universal system above all made it profitable to make telephoto lenses, little used at the time

Booklet Browsings from:

Don Baldwin (Acquisitions); Mike Beamish (Acquisitions; Variant Kine II); Christopher Bryce Morris (Acquisitions); Alan Denham (RAF reminiscences); Roger Hardy (Film and developer); John Richardson (Leiden); Tony Thompson (First booklet and first meeting); Neill Wright (Triotar)

Letters from:

Tom Ackermann (Zeiss history); Terry Hardy (Macro Kilar E); Alan Jankowski (Problematic Exa I); John Richardson (Lens caps); Ken Tucker (Domiplans)