Edixa mount question.

[jamaeolus]

I know Wirgin used mostly m42 mount for their SLR's but also briefly used a bayonet mount. Does anybody know what that mount looked like? Did they use any other systems ie rangefinders with interchangeable lenses?

[pdccameras]

Hey there,


I think these were the Edixa bayonet models:

bayonet:
Edixa Rex b, Edixa Rex d, Edixa Rex CdS
Edixa Rex TTL (fixed prism)

bayonet and M42:

Edixa Prismat TTL, Edixa Prismat LTL (fixed prism)

Check out this site:

http://www.ukcamera.com/classic_cameras/wirgin2.htm


Best,

Paul

[kypfer]

This reference https://camerapedia.fandom.com/wiki/Wirgin_Edixa_Reflex_B-V_(bayonet) suggests the bayonet was the Exakta mount ... I seem to vaguely remember some "re-branded" cameras were marked as 'Edixa' and had Pentax K mounts, but I can't find reference to that so may be mistaken

NB: the above link isn't presented correctly by the forum software, the url includes the final underscore and the word 'bayonet' in brackets.

My 2001-2002 copy of "McKeown's" also quotes the Edixa Reflex B-V as having an Exakta mount. Apparently this was an official but uncommon factory conversion.

[jamaeolus]

Thanks!

[Lightshow]

https://camerapedia.fandom.com/wiki/Wirgin_Edixa_series_(SLR_models)

[Lightshow]

[kypfer]

All very interesting

Here's an extract from my "McKeown's 2001-2002" ... the only real reference I have :



That 'Electronica' looks like it has a DKL mount, as used on Retina and Voigtlander cameras.

[jamaeolus]

Yes that is definitely a DKL. I have seen the lenses that fit those online (though when I posted the query I had forgotten that fact). I was wondering about alternative systems as I saw a lens with a mount very similar to the retina heligon, where the lens has 3 leaf springs mechanically attached to the base of the lens, the lens back protruded way past the flange which made me think of a RF. Turns out it is the Edixa bayonet mount that I was looking at. Not what I normally think of as a bayonet mount, though. Which typically have lugs machined into both lens and camera mount. Anyways thanks all. I'm trying to learn as much about these more unusual systems as I possibly can.