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Post by hannes on Dec 25, 2014 13:26:43 GMT -5
I registered to this forum because I would like to find more information about the Arex. (I posted my question in the existing Arex thread in viewfinders.) A short introduction: I started taking pictures end of the 1970ies with an Agfa Isoly taking 4x4cm negatives on 120 roll film. Then I upgraded my gear to Fed 1, Zorki 4, Prakticas, Pentax Spotmatic and finally a Nikon F301. All cameras have been at least second or third hand, except a Praktica MTL5B which was my first new camera. I also started collecting cameras, when I could get one for free or very cheap. 2007 I swaped to digital with a Nikon D70s. Last year I read about a project "a camera a month" which means to grab a different camera of your collection and use it every month. This brought me back to analog film also made me look for some other Cameras I had on my "wish list" for years. eg Nikon FM, a TLR, folders in 24x36 or 6x6. Having my eyes and ears open added a few more cameras to my collection. There is one requirement for cameras to be added to my colletion: They must be in working condition and ready to be used. Actually I have a film in this Zeiss Ikon Tenax I.  |
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Post by philbirch on Dec 25, 2014 14:02:46 GMT -5
Welcome to the forum. Hansz is our resident zeiss expert.
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Post by hannes on Dec 25, 2014 15:47:23 GMT -5
Hi Hansz:
Do you have a list to find the production year/month of a Tenax?
Mine has serial J84243.
Thank you Hannes
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2014 21:44:21 GMT -5
Welcome Hannes. We have at least one other Austrian member, MIK, near Vienna but he hasn't posted in some time. I visited with him when we came through on a European river cruise a few years ago.
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Post by hansz on Dec 26, 2014 6:35:41 GMT -5
Welcome Hannes, to the CC forum.
About your Tenax, I'm (still) not an 'expert' on the prewar models, (but I know who is - I'll ask him:-), the Tenax I is from 1939 (actually, the Tenax II came out in 1938, who said the Zeiss Ikon people knew the counting rules:-).
More information to come.
Hans
P.S. As your Tenax I is fitted with a unnumbered Novar (which was bought by Zeiss Ikon from different vendors at different times) it is not possible to date the lens. Beautiful little camera though!
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Post by hansz on Dec 26, 2014 7:52:59 GMT -5
Some more info,
The Tenax 1 was Introduced at Leipiz Trade Fair March 1939 and the first production batch of Tenax 1 had serial numbers in the range of H.87000 to H.96999, the second J.78000 to J.87999, the third M.40000 to M.47999(?) and the last and rarest N.5000 range (with Tessar 2,8/3,5cm lens).
So, most presumably your Tenax I is from 1939 or early 1940.
Hans
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Post by hannes on Dec 27, 2014 13:32:16 GMT -5
Thank you Hans
So this is my 2nd oldest camera.
Today I have seen a VEB post war Tenax I on sale for a reasonable price. Let's see if I can get it.
It looks a little bit different to the pictures of post war Tenax 1 I have seen.
There is VEB written right on the front ring around the lens and a 1 in a ring on the left side.
Hannes
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Post by hannes on May 6, 2015 16:06:33 GMT -5
Hello: After long time I finished the film in my Tenax, here are some of the images I got. It is an interesting look. The "glow" on bright parts of the images is what makes some kind of "vintage look". See more in my Gallery    Hannes |
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Post by Stephen on May 6, 2015 17:32:28 GMT -5
Very nice shots from the Zeiss Tenax, yes, they tend to glow a bit with flare at the age they are. The effect can be reduced a bit by under exposure, and it helps a bit to use a lens hood. But the most efective way with older cameras is to pre plan for the flare, and allowing for it. A liitle adjustment can also be done in any graphics programme with the digital file.
My own Zeiss Tenax is almost the same in performance, pretty sharp, but it has the glow as well. Don't forget the lenses were not really colour corrected as well in those days, you may find slight colour fringe and shift at the edge of the negative. After all, when introduced there were few colour films around, only Kodak, Agfa, and Dufay. The effects were not noticable in black and white, besides which they are slight in a Zeiss quality lens anyway.
Stephen
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Post by mickeyobe on May 6, 2015 19:55:01 GMT -5
I have the Tenax 1 (2). A splendid little camera but for the flare.
The cost of film and processing is much too high in Toronto and the quality is much too low.
Chemicals, too, are outrageous.
I wonder if a modern, coated, skylight or haze filter might not eliminate or, at least, minimize the haze on both colour and black & white films.
Mickey
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