Exakta Times   Seventy  Spring 2008

Colour Pictorial Section:
    Guy Woolley's pictures of Oxford
    More entries in Summer Competition, with mugshots

Where is it? Answers on a glossy print

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 4: Schott and Rudolph

Degree of modernisation of the factory; manufacture of improved types of glass. Pictures of historical interest

Hugo Ruys: Ihagee Curiosities

Nos 28 to 33: Personal viewfinders

This may be the first ever prismatic viewfinder on an Exakta

Michel Rouah and Hugo Ruys:
       Adapters for Exakta

Part 3: Japanese Adapters 1

T2 mount, and adapters from Caspeco, Marexar, Kalimar, Komura and Sigma. This is Komura's Unidapter

VP Exakta Section:

April 2008 sees the 75th anniversary of the release of the VP Exakta, the first use of the famous name

Don't forget to bring some pictures taken with a VP to Oxford!

Tom Ackermann: The VP Exakta

Very brief history: who was it designed for?

Ken Corfield: The First Junior

The Ihagee Junior, a very short-lived product

Michael Spencer: The Model that wasn't

There was no Model C!