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EXA Ihagee Tessar 2.8/50 Carl Zeiss Jena 24 Karat Vergoldet
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 8:53 pm    Post subject: EXA Ihagee Tessar 2.8/50 Carl Zeiss Jena 24 Karat Vergoldet Reply with quote
Click here to see on Ebay.de now this really looks appealing! Is it custom job or few of these were made by Ihagee?


PostPosted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
The Exa was their bottom end model, hardly the thing to make a luxury edition of. If any, they'd have gold plated a Exakta - and even that would have been rather unlikely to come from a Dutch owned company struggling with survival in the socialist GDR.

Besides, the condition of the camera does not match the heavily worn ever-ready case, and even at that small resolution the leather covering shows edges, which means it is visibly stronger than the camera leather common back then. Overall I'd be surprised if that thing had been plated more than ten years ago.


PostPosted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
What the man above said...

The pic that shows the back open also shows the camera's real condition.

I've got one of these little cameras and everything that's gold on the Ebay one is either chrome or polished aluminium. The body trim is chrome and the lens is polished aluminium. The leatherette is also black not brown.

Definitely not original.


PostPosted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:01 pm    Post subject: Re: EXA Ihagee Tessar 2.8/50 Carl Zeiss Jena 24 Karat Vergol Reply with quote
Pancolart wrote:
Click here to see on Ebay.de now this really looks appealing! Is it custom job or few of these were made by Ihagee?

They made a few Exaktas in golden trim. Juri Garagin (have the original delivery sheet for that camera somewhere) received one, Rheza Pahlevi had one, one or two Ihagee directors...they really did not bother with covering Exas with gold....
There were Exas and Exaktas leathered in different colors. Have some in blue, green, grey, red.... but no golden EXA.

Ever heard about Ferrari making a special edition of the Fiat Panda?

Klaus

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 11:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Ever heard about Ferrari making a special edition of the Fiat Panda?


Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing
who made it he was brain less...


PostPosted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
hee hee, good one Klaus


PostPosted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
That is a bit odd... If they were going to Gold plate a camera I would have expected them to do it to an Exakta Varex, not an Exa.

And the standard lens for an Exa was a Domiplan not a Tessar.


PostPosted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lord Minty wrote:
That is a bit odd... If they were going to Gold plate a camera I would have expected them to do it to an Exakta Varex, not an Exa.

And the standard lens for an Exa was a Domiplan not a Tessar.


AFAIK the Meyer Domiplan didn't appear until the 60's so wasn't around when that type of 50's Exa was on the go - you may be thinking of the Ludwig Meritar instead. My Exa is a type 4 from around 1956 (looks just like the Ebay one apart from the gold) and came with a Trioplan 50.


PostPosted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lord Minty wrote:
That is a bit odd... If they were going to Gold plate a camera I would have expected them to do it to an Exakta Varex, not an Exa.

And the standard lens for an Exa was a Domiplan not a Tessar.


No, Domiplan was later. For the pictured Exa, the Trioplan, Meritar and Tessar were the standard lenses.

Klaus
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