This collection Prospectus 'tusen och ett Scene' (A thousand and one motif, C 825), dated April 45 and was also intended for neutral Sweden. For Sweden, even on the Contax II / III coordinated brochure was printed in February 1944, which is also a record of the offer of the Sonnar 2/5 cm and 1,5 / 5 cm wide angle lens Biogon 2,8 / 3.5 cm in us T-optic supplies. Some leaflets document the sale to France, Latvia, Sweden and Switzerland. But there was also another export for foreign exchange held abroad. The main customer was the War Department.

The German population was able to purchase at that time only cameras with a permission slip, if any was at that time the sense of buying a new camera. The cameras carry de serial codes 0 and M. In order to provide the clearest possible representation of this difficult period of time in German history, I have chosen differently from previously published reports of mine the form of a timeline.ġ940-1945 The Dresden Zens Ikon AG produced the last series of the Contax II / III.

Together with the long-term Contax expert Kurt Jüttner, Offenbach, I could many archival documents provided by him are available from the Foundation House Carl Zeiss, Jena understand and evaluate. That the post-war production of the Contax and the million-built sister model, Kiev began in Jena, one needs closer examination. But the development of the Contax II / III at Carl Zeiss Jena grown up more or less rumors or guesses. Even the name of Sister Contax S, the archetype of the SLR development, some reports have been written in recent years. The camera models Contax I / II / III of the Dresden production and the Contax IIa / IIIa from Stuttgart must have gone any Photographica collectors to the concept. Original files in German attached on the right. Von der Carl Zeiss Jena-Contax zur Kiev'. Otto under the title 'Chronologie einer legendären Kamera.

History of Zeiss factories related to Kiev camera production in German for translation.

Contax serial number list