Kiev/Contax from the German point of view

Let see Jacques what would be next.

Ukraine is very strange country indeed. Some mix of capitalism with inhuman face with Soviet-style attitude and bureaucracy. Today it is very cold outside and almost the same temperature is inside our buildings. Some rumors told that this happened in order to show us what would we feel without Russian gas.

By the way, I visited also the Arsenal factory shop. I bought 3 new cases for Kiev 4a and Kiev 4am cameras! It is incredible. They have the particular smell that somebody could also feel many years ago buying Kievs in Soviet Union. Kind a time machine. And altogether it costed me 4 euros! The stamp means "Reduced in price"

I would like to thank all of you for your deeply informative posts on this subject.

My great grandfather worked for Carl Zeiss since 1900 and received a Jena Contax for his 50th anniversary. I'm now the 4th generation of my family to own it.

The Soviets originally wanted to take him as part of the reparations but he was too old to be taken and died 4 years after his 50th anniversary at age 68.

It was moving to see what could've happened to him, where his colleagues were taken and had worked.

just a quick hello. ocr and correcting the documents altix sent to me takes a lot more time than I thought and I had less time than I planned as well. but I'm still at it. the first bit will hopefully be ready next weekend.

Merci, Reinhard, pour ton travail!

Good luck to you, xya. I think the actual evolution is a pity. I hope you will succeed. Of course, the forum is not the right place, but what happens in Ukraine interests me much: my wife is a Zochtchenko maid...

Amitiйs. Jacques.

I am very appreciated xya, Jacques and SteveA for your comments.

I collected the part of my thread on rangefinder.ru into some kind of a book. I am not sure that all authors of collected articles would be happy to see their materials to be translated and shown to public without any permission. I apologize for that. I tried to cite correctly all sources. Since I do not have any intentions to get any profit from the translation of these articles or even publish the book, I think there would be everything ok with the authors' rights. I think that the presentation of different facts under one roof is very good stuff for further references of every collector. My next intention would be to compile something similar in English. If xya would translate the part of German books we could cooperate to include this into one file. Xya, what do you think about this?

Here is the link to the file in Russian: https://disk.yandex.ua/public/?hash=FGGXnSemT7uDwAX6HYq/BOsUcZVYX6toL%2BWkmNHZSmM%3D&ncrnd=9692

If you do not understand Russian still you can have a look at the structure and leave the comment what do you think.

Thank you

hi everybody,

finally I finished the first book. it was much more work than I thought. I just sent the textfile and the photos to vlad, to put it on this site. it's a very interesting book, you will love it.

I'll do the other book as well, but as it's 300 pages this will take some more time (several months). meanwhile please enjoy the first book.

Posted at http://ussrphoto.com/Wiki/default.asp?WikiCatID=35&ParentID=4&ContentID=1594&Item=Carl+Zeiss+in+Jena+%28German%29

Very interesting reading. Thank you.



Ron

Altix has given me this address again. This site contains the most part of the Zeiss Society's publications. Most interesting! Some of them concern the links between Contax and Kiev.

http://issuu.com/zeisshistoricasociety/docs

And many thanks to xya for all his work. Thanks to him too, things become more clear....

Amitiйs. Jacques.

Dear all,

I decided to post my work as a small contribution to the current topic. For more graphics look here:

http://3d-coat.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=16424&hl=



Many thanks to Alexey and Jacques for kind help.

with best regards

Beautiful!
And for the first time, we can see a "genuine" Volga!

Now, we wait for your complete work. When you will have time...

Amitiйs. Jacques.

Altix, this is amazing work!! I am very impressed with the quality of rendering and textures!

Thank you Jacques and Vlad. This was a successful experiment and I enjoyed it :) Two bodies that I used as references with their normal lenses belong to me. The interchangeable optics was drawn from the numerous pictures of real lenses that belong to my friends. Jacques, KIEV filter is yours (but the color is wrong :)). Orion-15 of GOI design was adopted from the Westlicht picture (thank guys there for good quality reference pictures).

Looking back, the most difficult was to mimic the engravings. I did them by hand since was unable to reproduce them with all other methods I tried.

I put pictures in the gallery with minor comments http://3d-coat.com/forum/index.php?app=gallery&image=468

Here I duplicate the picture of 'genuine' Volga ;) (logo I took from the Zeiss blueprints)



PS. And Jacques, I will continue my work further

Altix
My hottest congratuations for the excellent work done!
Really a breathtaking work of art!!!
Regards
LP