![]() ![]() This had film transport running vertically, like in most other rollfilm TLRs. In 1936 a totally different model of Ikoflex was introduced. Prices with Novar lenses with maximum aperture of f 4.5 and f 6.3 were very affordable. ![]() Perhaps the most uncommon feature of this roll film TLR was horizontally from left to right running film transport. It’s appearance earned it a nickname “Coffee-Can” because it reminded of the coffee can used by the German Armed forces during the First World War. The first Ikoflex that was introduced in the spring of 1934 was no copy of Rolleiflex but a very different design. In a similar manner Rolleiflex inspired a Ikoflex range of twin lens reflex models. Contax lineup – impressive as it was – was a reaction to Leica’s success. Zeiss Ikon like so many less known camera manufacturers of the time took ideas created by others and refined them in their own well-engineered/over-engineered manner. In my opinion Zeiss Ikon was more of a reactive follower than a ground breaking innovative leader. In my mind the major driving force in this process was at Leitz with Leica and Franke & Heideke with Rolleiflex and Rolleicord. This changing product palette was a result of the fast progress in cameras for 135 film and for paper backed roll film. In the period leading to the Second World War the balance of model range shifted from large format and plate cameras to rollfilm and 35 mm – miniature cameras, as they were then called. Initially there were more than 200 camera models. Zeiss Ikon was formed in 1926 in Dresden when Contessa-Nettel, Ernemann and Goerz merged around Zeiss owned Ica. ![]()
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