This is the famous Zeiss Ikon Movicon 8 of 1952, a complicated camera "disguised as a camera" Zeiss Ikon
Zeiss Ikon AG, Stuttgart & Dresden, Germany
- At photokina 1952, the Zeiss Ikon has a new 8mm camera, the "Movikon 8", with a goal "Movitar" f / 1.9 10mm that could frame a subject closer to 20 cm. Its inventor, Rudolf Taesler had to have some "problem" because the use of this machine is so complicated that it becomes a "case". This camera had to be hand held like a camera, because remember its shape. And this rather strange form difficult behavior "changes" to enter the film. This, in fact, went out from the spool and had to be twisted to move the shutter in front, and twisted again to get them into the coil target. Once settled, the film appeared to be "twisted cross". In 1958 out a modified model and is cheaper, "Movinette B", with a goal "Triotar f / 2.8 10mm. The following year, leaving the" Zeiss Ikon Movikon 8 B ", which was characterized to be more massive and more heavy. At Photokina 1963, is presented with a new machine, the "Zeiss Ikon Super Moviflex, much heavier (1,650 kg.) and even more voluminous (68x140x211 mm). However, it was equipped with a zoom lens, the" Zeiss Vario- Sonnar "f / 1.9 to 7.5 to 30 mm. It was a machine not only bulky and heavy but also very expensive (costing 1,800 marks, then, well over three times the previous cameras). Until 1967, the Zeiss was not Product format still cameras used Super-8, that year Zeiss puts you away, producing the "S Moviflex 8" with a "Zeiss Vario-Sonnar" f / 1.9 to 9-36 mm. After this, various models come with all Super-8, but the business of producing film cameras is finally abandoned by the end of 1972 Zeiss Ikon
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