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1. #E. LEITZ WETZLAR GERMANY FOLDING CAMERA TRIPOD FULL#
2. #E. LEITZ WETZLAR GERMANY FOLDING CAMERA TRIPOD PRO#
3. #E. LEITZ WETZLAR GERMANY FOLDING CAMERA TRIPOD PROFESSIONAL#

This is surrounded by a screen image that's quite bright but always in focus irrespective of the distance setting of the lens-it's sorta like a rangefinder! Oh well, at least it's got an instant-return mirror and meters at full aperture. And its focusing system is downright peculiar-the actual focusing image is confined to a smallish fine microprism circle in the center of the finder field. It's an old-fashioned match-needle-metering SLR with a non-TTL CdS meter cell inset in the front of the penta-prism housing. The original Leicaflex of '64-'68 (called the standard in retrospect) is certainly underwhelming in terms of features. (Contarexes are another story for another column.) If you're patient, you can snag a clean, operational example with a fine lens for not much more than a few hundred bucks-or about twice that much for a pristine example. The good news for collectors is that the current bear market in (most) film SLRs means that Leicaflexes and their cousins, early Leica Rs, are now a lot more affordable. On the other hand, they were exquisitely made heavy metal machines with superb optics that were bench assembled in relatively limited quantities, and that's why they make such fascinating user collectibles. In short, the Zeiss Contarex and the Leicaflex were idiosyncratic, essentially unrelated to their splendid rangefinder forbears, stupendously expensive, and not very technically audacious-cameras that may have pleased the engineers but didn't sell like hotcakes. After much ado, both came out with SLRs that proclaimed, "Have it our way!"-turning the later but famous Burger King slogan on its head. Leitz Wetzlar and Zeiss Ikon, proceeded with too much deliberation, an excess of caution, and insufficient speed. Unfortunately, when it came to developing new focal plane shutter, interchangeable lens, penta-prism SLRs, the two most venerable German camera companies, E. With such a spate of technical innovation issuing forth from Japan, the Germans, then esteemed as the world's premier precision camera manufacturers, knew they couldn't afford to rest on their laurels-and they didn't. was in the fray with the Topcon RE Super, an early TTL-metering SLR by '63, and not much later, in '65, Konica announced the world's first autoexposure SLR, the Konica Auto-Reflex.

#E. LEITZ WETZLAR GERMANY FOLDING CAMERA TRIPOD PRO#

Nikon soon took the lead, introducing the landmark Nikon F in '59, a formidable pro system camera based on the well established form of the very successful Nikon S-series rangefinder cameras. No other camera type offered the SLR's supreme optical flexibility and a penta-prism finder with eye-level, through the lens, parallax-free viewing and focusing.

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Adventurous souls and early adopters were shooting with 35mm SLRs (namely the Kine Exakta) as far back as 1936, but it wasn't until the late '50s and early '60s that 35mm SLRs really began to dominate the serious amateur and professional camera market.