Iloca Electric - anybody here with one?

[duckrider]

Iloca Electric was the first electric motordrive VF with Metering:

http://iloca.weebly.com/iloca-electric.html

manual:
http://www.bleckedermoor.de/fotomuseum/IlocaElectricManual.pdf

I'm more and more facinated by the second row of German camera manufacturers of this time, Leica is not all in the world

DKL mount was used on several models, but manufacturers did minor variations to provide changing lenses from on to an other...
http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Kodak_Retina_Reflex
http://www.cameraquest.com/ret3s.htm

[philslizzy]

An interesting camera but 1 year outside my collection 1954 -1957 strictly.

Was the motor clockwork or battery?

[calvin83]

I have the US version Graphic 35 Electric with box, case, manual and the kit lens.

[duckrider]

[scsambrook]

Thanks for posting this, duckrider. I've never even seen one and I'm sure it never made it onto the UK market. Interestingly, in the late 1950s the Iloca cameras that were sold in the UK were regarded by the trade as pretty much inferior to similar models from Agfa, Balda, Franka and other brands. Only the Wirgin non-slr models were thought inferior - I make no comment, I'm just recounting what I was told back then by the older guys I worked with in in the photo trade the mid-1960s.

[jamaeolus]

I bought one! Cosmetically in excellent shape. Came with the Rodenstock Ysarex 50mm 2.8. (I just love the DKL mount lenses and have way more than I should). Unfortunately the battery compartment was a corroded mess. I did my best to clean and neutralize. Most of the corrosion was at the end with the bus bar so I was somewhat hopeful on function. Put some batteries in a it powered! But only a bit. Bought new batteries and put those in and it powered....weakly. The plastic battery compartment had been broken and glued, inelegantly. It is a very strange camera. Very sleek. Very few "appendages". Aside from the usual DKL Synchro-Compur controls only an exposure control dial with DIN readings on top and ASA readings on the bottom. This is mounted to the left as you face the camera. A tiny count down exposure remaining window on top of the housing must be set by a geared wheel inside the film compartment. No strap lugs. No obvious way to open the back. There is no on/off button for the motor, no back up system for film advance. To open the film compartment there is a tiny release slider which works the film rewind. Then pull out on the rewind crank, while still holding the release lever, it is when you push it back in that the back pops loose. The battery compartment is in the center of the base of the camera and is released via a screw suitable for a coin as screwdriver. It has another plastic cover under that. I will mess with it some more to see if I can make it function. If not, oh well, I bought it for the lens and am all in for under 50, and it will look nice on the shelf.

[stevemark]

[jamaeolus]