Zeiss Ikon M-Mount Rangefinder Camera Body, Silver | 
| Brand: Zeiss
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 120584
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
MPN: 1365576
ASIN: B000GHDRDO
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| • | Combines a classical design with easy-to-use operation. | | • | Features and controls are designed to make practical photography comfortable andfree | | • | Manual or auto TTL exposure metering as well as an AE-lock function gives you complete control of the exposure situation | | • | The Zeiss Ikon viewfinder lets you see the area that surrounds the actual image giving you greater possibilities and confidence as you compose each image. | | • | The triangulation rangefinder combined with a viewfinder base that is the widest available means that you can expect extreme accuracy and wide-angle focusing precision. |
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Product Description
The new Zeiss Ikon camera combines a classical design with easy-to-use operation. Features and controls are designed to make practical photography comfortable and free from unpleasant surprises caused by the camera. Manual or auto TTL exposure metering as well as an AE-lock function gives you complete control of the exposure situation. So that you can make best use of the entire system from the film to the lens. Quite simply, you can count on a highly versatile creative tool that won't let you down.The Zeiss Ikon rangefinder system includes a complete range of Carl Zeiss lenses featuring the very latest optical designs. In fact, in terms of high performance, precision sharp resolution & durability, we are targeting the limits of what can possibly be achieved. They are specifically designed to minimize focus shift with aperture variation, particularly important for rangefinder photography.They also feature highly advanced flare control for truly brilliant images; virtually zero geometric distortion for accurate reproduction of object shapes from faces to architecture; and a precise 10-blade aperture with 1/3 stop interval click stops for exact exposure. Just tomention a few highlights. As a whole, the Zeiss Ikon rangefinder system has taken rangefinder photography to a new level.Zeiss Ikon's passion is to create the ultimate range of M-mount lenses. But really that's just the beginning. After all, only a complete M-mount rangefinder system featuring a c
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A Worthy Rival to Current Leica M Rangefinder Cameras October 18, 2006
John Kwok (New York, NY USA)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
The Zeiss Ikon M-mount Rangefinder Camera is a stylish, classic update of Zeiss's great rangefinder cameras from the early to mid 20th Century, most notably its venerable Contax line. Designed by Zeiss, but built in Japan by Cosina (Voigtlander) under strict Zeiss supervision, the Zeiss Ikon rangefinder camera remains a viable, attractive alternative to those wishing to use a M-mount rangefinder camera, but can't afford purchasing either a used or new Leica MP or Leica M7. It can be regarded as a cheaper alternative to the aperture priority automatic and manual exposure Leica M7, but unlike the M7, it has a few intriguing features of its own which should appeal to M-mount rangefinder camera photographers.
The Zeiss Ikon rangefinder camera has an extremely bright, high eyepoint viewfinder that has the best viewing (especially for someone like myself who wears glasses) I have seen yet from a Leica M-mount rangefinder camera that isn't the venerable Leica M3. The viewfinder has a 0.74 X magnification that accounts for its excellent viewing (It also has a built-in diopter correction.). The viewfinder also has frame lines for 28mm, 35mm, 50mm and 85mm lenses, which display the focal length of the lens in use and are completely compatible with Leica M rangefinder lenses, except for 75mm lenses (Only the frame line for a 50mm lens will appear if a 75mm lens is mounted; for 90mm lenses, the 85mm frame line appears automatically.).
The camera may seem a bit too light for those accustomed to Leica M rangefinder cameras, but it has a very well built magnesium-alloy body. Opening and closing the camera is through a latch key-like knob at the base of the camera (It also functions as a film rewind crank, so unfortunately, there is no option for attaching something like the Leica M motor, a Leicavit manual winder, or Tom Abrahamsson's Rapid Winder.), but unlike Leica Ms, the camera back swings open to allow for film loading. The camera's shutter isn't nearly as quiet as those of past and current Leica M film rangefinder cameras, especially the M7's, but it is certainly less noisy than the M8's. It is based on a proven Japanese design that allows for shutter speeds in Aperture Priority or Manual Exposure modes from 1 to 1/2000 seconds, plus a flash synchronization speed of 1/125 second (Both the camera's meter and shutter are powered by two MS76 silver oxide batteries, as is the case for every Leica M rangefinder camera from the M6 to the M7 and MP; however, if the batteries die out, the camera will cease to function.).
As a long-time user of Leica M rangefinder cameras and lenses, I regard the Zeiss Ikon as a cheaper, more reasonably priced, alternative to the Leica M7. Others, however, may find it the perfect M-mount rangefinder camera for their collection of M-mount lenses, including the new Zeiss ZM line - virtually all of which are built in Japan by Cosina under strict Zeiss quality control - which are optically as superb as their more expensive Leica M equivalents, and in a couple of instances, optically superior.
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