Exakta Times   Sixty-nine  Winter 2007

Colour Pictorial Section:
   Winning entries in Summer Competition
   Pictures at AGM

This is Sidney Wood's second-place entry, but the first in colour!

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

Tom Ackermann: The History of Carl Zeiss Jena

Part 3: Ernst Abbe

Abbe's education and early training was in the fields of mathematics and physics, and by the age of 25 he had produced his greatest paper, On Considerations of Fault Distribution in the Application of the Method of Least Squares. This led to a professorship at Jena, and a couple of years later Zeiss invited him to become Research Director in his firm.

Heimo Ferstl: Curiosity No 27 Explained

I thimk this "thing" is an attachment for microscopes, maybe for a spectroscopic device or something like that. Theoretically it could also be for an astronomical telescope, but a microscope is more probable, because in the photos one can see the typical rings to fasten it between the stand of a microscope and the tube with the eyepiece.

Michel Rouah and Hugo Ruys:
       Adapters for Exakta

Part 2: German Adapters 2

Meyer, Novoflex, Piesker and Schneider. This is Novoflex's AUXBA for mounting the big teles on the pistol-grip handle for rapid focusing

Olaf Nattenberg: Exa Post

I just acquired an Exa Post. The camera is based on the Exa Ib and was specially modified to record telephone usage counters. I would like you to send me the serial number of your Exa Post! I'll establish a list with all known cameras.

Reinhard Kuttner: A Christmas Story

It's the Glühwein, you know!