Zeiss website under construction

[hansz]

Hi, just started a thread and it automagically disappeared...
Well, to prepare myself for retirement, i started a small project about the Carl Zeiss concern and its subsidiary Zeiss Ikon.
Just take a look at www.holoceen.nl.
I like to have suggestions which way to go. Today I'm scanning and uploading information.
Regards, Hans

[col]

Hans best of luck with the project Colin

[olroy2044]

Welcome Hans! I wondered when you would show up over here on the CC! I have enjoyed your company on the Vintage SLRs group, and am very glad to see you here!

For those here who are just meeting Hans, he is not only a collector of fine cameras, but an accomplished photographer in his own right.

Looking forward to seeing more of your work, and chatting here on the CC.

I'll be taking a look at your site soon, when things settle down a little at my house.

Roy

[daveh]

Roy, by the way here but I saw a Pentax A110 20-40 zoom lens for sale today in "Cash Converters". They didn't have the camera, nor anything else as far as I could see. The lens looked in good condition - but not much use for me!

Dave.

[photax]

Welcome Hans !

Just took a short look at your site and will read it carefully as soon as possible.
I also wish you best luck with the project !

MIK

[hansz]

The site www.holoceen.nl has a bit grown... more than 10GB now, mostly documentation about Zeiss Ikon, Carl Zeiss and odd ends of other manufacturers.
Each month I share the statistics with the Zeiss Historica fans at facebook page: www.facebook.com/groups/stevenkoves/

Enumerated are about 2100 body and camera numbers, 12000 lenses, and 330 documents.
Except compiling numbers, the coming years I will concentrate more on content...

Hans

[paulhofseth]

Interesting. It inspired me to go through Z in my bookshelf. I then looked at some of the material on your website, but could not easily find whether you had any of the texts that I have. I noted that Voigtländer from before ZIV and Contax from Japan will not be included, so of the texts I have, there are only 11 that are relevant.

If you wish I can mail you about 3cm. of literature that I have instead of scanning it myself. Alphabetically:

aus Jena Bildgestalung Wirkung Perspektive Druckschriften-Nr. N 54-082-1
Carl Zeiss Jena, new-years greetings card from the Geodätische Geräte Vertriebsabteilung
Contaxphotographie undated,probably 1936, 96p, ZI Dresden. numbered C740 o. Pr
Contarex brochure, Norwegian, Best.-Nr 3421 norwegisch
"Contax" brochure, German, 29p. undated, probably early 1930es, no print info, but clearly CZ. numbered C 504b o.Pr
Contessa brochure , Swedish, 3leaves, no 5219 Schwed 50 1050
Modo de usar el fotometro "Diaphot",dir. for use, Spanish, 1922? 12p.ZI Dresden numbered B 2208 Sp.and H 2808.30.1128
Ob Beruf oder Hobby brochure ad Contarex one folded sheet, Best.- Nr. 3425 dt. o. Pr.
Phototechnik nr 3 1922, 48p. published by Ica AG Dresden, ContessaNettel AG Stuttgart, Mimosa AG Dresdan (on Diaphot)
Planar 1:3,5/100mm Brochure, Swedish by Dr. Hans Sauer, published by Hasselblad. Marked Gøteborg 1.006 Sv 14 71
Super Ikonta III, dir. for use(of camera nr. C 97080), German, 27p ZI Stuttgart, numbered 319/531/16


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[hansz]

Carl Zeiss/Zeiss Ikon produced tons of material, so I'm not surprised you have a different set...
You can mail the texts to me, but I presume you want them back:-)

My scans are 300dpi, 24-bit colour mode.

Any information is welcome!

At this moment, documentation is only available by means of a rather crude search mechanism (as you found out); in the future it should be available close relevant information pages. That will take some time, though.

As you mentioned, Voigtländer and Contax/Yashica are outside my domain, although I de incorporate Carl Zeiss lenses with a Contax/Yashica bayonet mount.