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Lomo Sokol Automat with 2.8/50 Industar-70
Rangefinder camera with parallax compensation
Shutter speeds from 1/30 to 1/500 and B
Nearest focus distance: 0.8 m
Shutter priority automatic exposure and manual mode
What an amazing camera. It's big and heavy, but not as big as the Yashica Electro 35. The lens barrel is also a bit oversized (filter thread 55 mm), but it doesn't include a fast six-element lens, "only" a four-element Industar.
The Sokol was introduced in 1966, the first versions had 6 meter cells at the front, later they were reduced to 3. The camera above has the flash contacts at the body and not on the lens barrel, so it was produced in 1972 or later. In 1979 the Sokol was replaced by the Sokol-2.
The aperture of my copy didn't close correctly, somewhat sporadic. My attempt to fix it was very unsuccessful. I did not even find out if the blades just stuck together or there was a failure in the very sophisticated mechanism of the automatic exposure. But the opening of the camera body revealed some astonishing details. This camera has the most solid rangefinder mechanism I have ever seen, it is like looking into a vintage sewing machine. The viewfinder itself is also surprizingly good.
Now to the amazing part: I read in a camera blog, that the Sokol will adjust the shutter speed automatically, if the range of f-stops is not sufficient in automatic mode. I had my doubts, because this would be a kind of program mode. But is true, in automatic mode the chosen speed/f-stop pair is displayed in the viewfinder, when the shutter button is pressed halfway. I could not really test it, because the meter is also dead, but the mechanism is described here.
Notes:
The shutter speed and the f-stop can only be selected, when the shutter is cocked.
I could not find out, if the meter works in manual mode.
The camera needs a PX625 1.35V mercury cell.
Another question which remains: what was the archetype of this camera?
Rolleiflex Automat, Tessar 75mm with red filter, Ilford FP4 pulled to EI 50. Developed Xtol, printed on Orienatal Warmtone FB, scanned on HP Photosmart 4599.
Snow, trees, and light. March 2018. Owls Head Maine. Rolleiflex automat tessar, tmy2 tmax 400 film in pyrocat hdc
Tive um Tio.
Era eu pequenote quando morreu.
Mas recordo de ele possuir uma agenda de secretária, grande, muito grande para os meus olhos de então, onde ele tinha anotado tudo quanto considerava de importante. E todos os anos lá copiava ele da velha para a nova.
Pois todos os dias, antes de sair de casa pela manhã, consultava ele a sua agenda e dirigia-se à estação de correios ao fundo da rua. Daí, enviava um telegrama de parabéns a quem quer que nesse dia fizesse anos. Mesmo que o ou a não visse há muito.
Um acto deliberado, consciente, trabalhoso e oneroso.
Hoje temos os “Outlooks”, os “E-Mails”, os “FaceBooks” que nos recordam, queiramos ou não, dos aniversários de quem lá conste. E usando da mesma tecnologia de informação e a custo zero, lá gastamos uns 10 a 15 segundos a mandar os tais “parabéns” descaracterizados, frios, impessoais, electrónicos.
Sendo que acho que não deverá ser uma máquina ou um calendário que deva dizer quando me devo divertir ou cumprimentar quem quer que seja, ignoro esses avisos automáticos.
Quanto ao resto, nada melhor que uma festa de desaniversário, para citar Lewis Caroll. Que, por sinal, até foi também um dos grandes fotógrafos do seu tempo.
By me
This photo is part of the workshop I participated in during the 'rencontres photographiques d'Arles' (France) with Denis Rouvre as a workshop director.
I chose 'les sud' music event as a subject and decided for 4 days to take pictures in front of a dirty wall close to place paul doumer in the popular neighborhood called la roquette. I decided to shoot musicians, people attending the free shows and local people.
Manufactured by Franke & Heidecke, Braunschweig, Germany
Model: c. 1947, Type K4B2 = Model 3, (produced between 1945-1949)
all Rolleiflex Automat produced between 1937-1956
according to Rolleiclub
TLR film camera, film: 120 roll (B2), picture size 6x6cm
Taking lens: Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 75mm f/3,5 filter size: Bayonet I, serial no.1987202
Franke & Heidecke Braunschweig engravings under taking lens
Aperture: f/3.5 - f/22 setting: via a thumb wheel between the lenses, scale in the small indicator window, on top of the lens plate
Finder lens: Heidoscop Anastigmat f/2,8 75mm
Focus range: 0.85-20m +inf
Focusing: matte glass screen, via a big knob on the left side of the camera, w/ distance and DOF scales
Viewfinder: waist level finder, opens by a latch on the back, w/ magnifying loop and sports eye level magnifier.
For using the latter, there is a reflector in the hood and opens by a small knob on the left side of the finder,
Shutter: Compur - Rapid, speeds: 1 - 1/250 +T & B,
setting: via a thumb wheel between the lenses, scale in the small indicator window, on top of the lens plate
Cocking lever: also winds the film, on the right side, with auto double exposure prevention, you must return the lever to its resting position after the cocking for making the next cocking
Shutter release: on the left lower front corner of the camera, w/ a locking cap
Cable release socket: on the right lower front corner of the camera
Frame counter: auto reset, above the winding lever, not works without the film in the camera
Self-timer: on the left upper corner of the camera
Back cover: hinged, also removable with bottom plate by latches on the sides, w/ exposure guide table, opens by a latch on the bottom of the camera
Film loading: insert the take-up spool into the upper side by pulling-out the knob right upper side of the camera, then insert the film into the lower side, move the film leader under the chrome cylinder and pull and insert to the take-up spool; close the cover and turn the cocking lever untill number 1 seen in the frame counter window
Tripod socket: 3/8''; Strap lugs
Body: metal; Weight: 928g
Engravings beneath the Rolleiflex logo: D.R.P. and serial no.1079399
(D.R.P. means Deutsches Reichs Patent stating that this design or part of it was patented sometime between 1890-1945)
The camera could be used with Rolleikin I to use 35mm film or with the special glass plate film adapter. More info:
feat. Erika Miklosova
camera • Lomo'Instant Automat Glass Magellan
film • Fujifilm Instax Mini Monochrome
scan • Epson Perfection V600 Photo
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Le tengo mucho afecto a esta vieja camara que fue de mi padre. Es una Zeiss Ikon Contaflex Super B.
La compro cuando yo naci. Muchas fotos de mi infancia las tomo con ella.
No puedo evitar sentir nostalgia cuando la tengo en mis manos. Segun lo que he investigado no es un modelo clasico, aunque fue la primer camara automatica de 35mm.
El lente es un Carl Zeiss Tessar. El "Tessar: viene del griego que significa "cuatro:, por los cuatro elementos que tiene el objetivo. Muchos productos fotograficos Sony y los mas recientes telefonos con camara de Nokia utilizan estos lentes Carl Zeiss Tessar, (aunque los actuales ya no usan los 4 objetivos, pero conservan el nombre Tessar por mercadotecnia).
En esa epoca los alemanes predominaban en el mercado de las camaras fotograficas. Los productos japoneses eran vistos como lo son el dia de hoy los chinos.
Era tanta la fama de los alemanes en instrumentos fotograficos, que los japoneses copiaron el nombre de Zeiss Ikon para usarlo en su marca Nikon (El" Ni" es por nipon).
Hoy la empresa Zeiss Ikon intenta recuperar el prestigio perdido. Se rumora que sacara a la venta la primer camara digital de esa empresa.
Regresando a la Contaflex, las fotos que toma en automatico no son muy buenas, pero creo que seria injusto compararla con las camaras fotograficas actuales, prefiero recordarla como una maravilla tecnologica de la epoca.
Manufactured by Franke & Heidecke, Braunschweig, Germany
Model: c. 1947, Type K4B2 = Model 3, (produced between 1945-1949)
all Rolleiflex Automat produced between 1937-1956
according to Rolleiclub
TLR film camera, film: 120 roll (B2), picture size 6x6cm
Taking lens: Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 75mm f/3,5 filter size: Bayonet I, serial no.1987202
Franke & Heidecke Braunschweig engravings under taking lens
Aperture: f/3.5 - f/22 setting: via a thumb wheel between the lenses, scale in the small indicator window, on top of the lens plate
Finder lens: Heidoscop Anastigmat f/2,8 75mm
Focus range: 0.85-20m +inf
Focusing: matte glass screen, via a big knob on the left side of the camera, w/ distance and DOF scales
Viewfinder: waist level finder, opens by a latch on the back, w/ magnifying loop and sports eye level magnifier.
For using the latter, there is a reflector in the hood and opens by a small knob on the left side of the finder,
Shutter: Compur - Rapid, speeds: 1 - 1/250 +T & B,
setting: via a thumb wheel between the lenses, scale in the small indicator window, on top of the lens plate
Cocking lever: also winds the film, on the right side, with auto double exposure prevention, you must return the lever to its resting position after the cocking for making the next cocking
Shutter release: on the left lower front corner of the camera, w/ a locking cap
Cable release socket: on the right lower front corner of the camera
Frame counter: auto reset, above the winding lever, not works without the film in the camera
Self-timer: on the left upper corner of the camera
Back cover: hinged, also removable with bottom plate by latches on the sides, w/ exposure guide table, opens by a latch on the bottom of the camera
Film loading: insert the take-up spool into the upper side by pulling-out the knob right upper side of the camera, then insert the film into the lower side, move the film leader under the chrome cylinder and pull and insert to the take-up spool; close the cover and turn the cocking lever untill number 1 seen in the frame counter window
Tripod socket: 3/8''; Strap lugs
Body: metal; Weight: 928g
Engravings beneath the Rolleiflex logo: D.R.P. and serial no.1079399
(D.R.P. means Deutsches Reichs Patent stating that this design or part of it was patented sometime between 1890-1945)
The camera could be used with Rolleikin I to use 35mm film or with the special glass plate film adapter. More info: