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Our Ireland PI event —–22nd of November——
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irishwonkafan wrote:
Nice piece of jewelery Sinead…what is it?
Alan
Since Sinead isn’t around to answer that-
this is from an earlier post in the Rangefinder thread-jb7 wrote:
So this is the Zeiss Super Ikonta model A 531, from 1952, and the Olympus XA from 1979.
The Ikonta has a coated Zeiss 75mm ƒ/3.5 Tessar in a slightly rarer Synchro Compur shutter,
with speeds up to 1/500 sec. It does have a few dings, so it’s a user rather than a collectible-I’ve put it beside the Olympus XA for scale, the Olympus is one of the smallest 35mm rangefinders-
The Super Ikonta is 6×4.5, so the 75mm lens is roughly the diagonal of the format, and therefore standard.
The Olympus is a 35mm, so slightly wider than that, as well as being a 2×3 format.As well as the rangefinder, which seems very accurate, the camera also features a double exposure prevention device-
the shutter will not fire, even if it’s cocked, unless the film is advanced-John mentioned an Olympus OM1, well, they don’t fit into the pocket as easily as either of these, despite their small size.
It is possible to find a 40mm ƒ/2 pancake lens for it, but they’re rare, and not inexpensive.
There are two on ebay right now, the cheaper one is €475.The XA is a very pocketable camera, the Ikonta a bit bulkier, but still smaller than slr alternatives.
I’ve only developed one roll from the Ikonta recently, here’s a picture from it-
Oh, and how about a few more pictures of and from your rangefinders?
just a thought…Sorry Alan…
What Joseph said. Lovely little camera, really dinky.
Like the pictures from the pub too :)Only took 3 pictures on the day :-)
This was one of them, a holy Joe shop I spotted when walking down O’Connell Street on the way to the Francis Bacon exhibition that I am still scratching my head about…
I like that its three shops in one, a holy statue shop, currency exchange shop and a travel shop…
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