The post-WWII Contaflex was Zeiss Ikon's single lens reflex camera for amateur photographers. This Contaflex I was made in the mid-'50s at the Zeiss Ikon camera factory in Stuttgart, West Germany.
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The camera body is made from a light metal alloy and has chrome and black leather trim. This camera has a non-interchangeable, Carl Zeiss Tessar f/2.8 45 mm lens in a Synchro Compur leaf shutter. The lens is a front cell focusing design. The distance scale on my camera is marked in feet for the export market. The focusing screen has a split prism focusing aid. The camera body has a removable back for loading film, like the back on the Contax, and a removable film take up spool. Spools and cassettes made for the Contax also will fit the Contaflex. If your take up spool is missing you can tape the film to the spool from a regular 35 mm film cassette. The camera has knob wind film advance. The reflex mirror is not instant return. After you take a picture the view finder is blacked out until you advance the film, which lowers the mirror and opens the shutter for focusing and aiming the camera. Advancing the film also cocks the shutter for the next picture.
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