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    The Contaflex series is a family of 35mm Single-lens reflex cameras (SLR) equipped with a leaf shutter, produced by Zeiss Ikon in the 1950s and 1960s....
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    market above the Contaflex SLR, which was intended for advanced amateurs, but below the Contarex line for professionals. Icarex SLRs were manufactured...
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    Voigtländer Bessamatic and Ultramatic (category Voigtländer SLR cameras)
    Reflex) and Zeiss Ikon (Contaflex SLR) in Germany, rather than the focal plane shutter almost universally adopted by Japanese SLRs such as the contemporary...
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    camera Contaflex TLR Box Tengor Model 54, c. 1932 Contax I rangefinder camera (1932–36) Contaflex SLR Icarex 35 SLR Contarex 1 ("Bullseye") SLR Voigtländer...
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    1962. Zeiss Ikon also produced several SLR camera lines starting from the 1950s, including the Contaflex SLR, Contarex, Bessamatic (as Voigtländer, which...
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    format SLRs and used in a few 35 mm rangefinder cameras, but almost exclusive to Contarex/Contaflex series among 35 mm SLRs. Although Contarex SLRs and their...
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    127 film, was introduced by Ihagee Kamerawerk Steenbergen & Co. 1935 Contaflex: first 35 mm twin-lens reflex camera with interchangeable lens and the...
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    best-known of which was the Contaflex of 1935, but for the most part these met with little success. The first major post-war SLR innovation was the eye-level...
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    concept was shared with the Contaflex SLR, although Contarex magazine backs are wider and physically incompatible with Contaflex cameras and vice versa. A...
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    scale is mirrored into the viewfinder. Various models of Zeiss Ikon Contaflex SLR and Contessa cameras have built-in coupled match needle selenium meters...
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