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120519 Michael Mol wrote: |
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> According to Wikipedia, the Zeiss Ikon is 35mm SLR, |
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> but that's about all you're going to get from it. |
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No ! -- as Stroller pointed out, zoom lenses were invented only c 1950. |
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My stepfather's model was made in Germany c 1939 |
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& had been mentioned to him as a good buy by a photo-expert friend. |
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After the traumas of England 1940, someone had sold it to a store, |
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which was offering it very cheaply, so he grabbed a very real bargain. |
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I didn't think of keeping it after he died, but it wb a collector's item: |
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I've put a photo I found on the I/net in my 'test' directory. |
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It didn't use 35 mm film, but '120' IIRC, a much larger format. |
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What was a typical focal length for a good camera in 1939 ? |
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This thread, tho' rather far from Gentoo itself, |
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has obviously been of interest to a number of people |
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& can serve as a resource for anyone searching the I/net |
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for advice how to make a panorama from smaller images, |
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but we shouldn't take it too far & images themselves belong elsewhere. |
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