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This is the initial test film of my newly arrived Wirgin Edixa-Mat Reflex Mod D-L year 1965.
The camera was loaded with a 36-exposure Fomapan 100 film and the Edixa-Xenar lens equipped with a coated Hoya HMC Skylight (1B) screw-on 49mm protective filter plus a generic cylindrical metal shade hood. Expositions were determined for 100 ISO using an Autometer III Minolta light meter fitted with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas.
The weather was very cloudy in the afternoon. I used exposition times of 1/1000s to 1/60s were used from the full aperture aperture to f/9.
June 4, 2024
69001 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was revealed using Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developper at dilution 1+50 and 20°C for 9 min. The film was then digitized using a Sony A7 body fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. Foe this series, I used for the first time the CineStill light source CS-lite . The RAW files obtained were processed without intermediate files in LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures. All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg accompanied by some documentary smartphone Vivo Y76 color pictures.
The 39 views are regularly spaced and homogeneously spaced indicating a normal camera mechanical fonction in the range used.
About the camera and the lens :
The German Edixa SLR’s are captivating camera’s constructed by Wirgin Kamerawerke, Wiesbaden, from 1954 to 1968 in various versions. Edixa Reflex was designed by Heinz Waaske (1924 – 1995) a German camera designer who also invented other famous camera’s as the Edixa 16 and the Rollei 35.
My Edixa-Mat Reflex Mod D-L is a late model 1965. The model D-L was the top of the line of Edixa-mat equipped with different advanced functions that look like some of my Ihagee Exakta Varex, in particular a special horology mechanism giving self-shutter release tunable from 9 to 2s that could be converted also for long-exposures. Similarly to the Exakta Varex,the shutter has two exposition time registers from 1/30 to 1/1000s for the regular times and a switchable second register giving 1/8 to 1s. The Wirgin Edixa-mat Reflex has as well an interchangeable finders with a waist-level finder with loup and the prism finder. This Edixa series has the automatic mirror flip-back after release. It of course fully mechanical without built-in light metering system.
The camera body has the common M42 lens screw mount and operates the M42 lenses with automatic preselection diaphragm (or manual lenses too). I got the camera with likely its original normal lens conceived for the Edixa by Schneider-Kreuznach in Götingen, Germany, called Edixa-Xenar 1:2.8 f=50mm. The Xenar lens series are derived from the Zeiss Tessar formula with 4 lenses in 3 groups. Its serial number indicates that the lens was manufactured after September 1964 or current year 1965. The lens has a special depth-of-field visual indicator under a transparent ring varying according the aperture value.
I also got both the waist-level finder and the prism finder as well, two shutter-release adaptors for the use of standard cable release, and two accessories or flash shoes adaptation to the prism finder. The lot also included a Ihagee set of extension rings for Exakta's that joined my Varex IIa set.