Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:07 AM 11/23/1999 EST, LEICAMAN56@aol.com wrote: >Well, I went searching in the basement and found the catalog. It was from >the Cornwall auction of October 1990. There are 4 photos of the camera and >related parts. The camera is a Contax I in black paint. The camera takes >photos in stereo while attached to the periscope. The camera is engraved >with the eagle and swastika over an upper case "M" which would indicate >Kriegsmarine. The engraved description is Stereo-Kamera II Nr. 3. The serial >number engraved is 76199. Thanks, Bill! Most interesting. This is not a regular production Contax I, as the regular production all had letter prefixes as was the custom of Zeiss Ikon, so I would suspect this camera might have been reworked at Jena. I do not understand why it was stereo, though. A periscope yields a monocular image. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!