orwopan
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Post by orwopan on Sept 16, 2006 7:11:08 GMT -5
Good morning folks,
as I told you I bought a nice Icarex 35 S last week serving as a Lens cap for my Fisheye-Takumar, same guy called in yesterday and brought lots of filters and stuff and lenses and another Icarex, a 35 CS with interchangeable viewfinder and focusing screens...nice cameras, but in need of repair and service. I´ve already cleaned the lenses, but now I´m stuck: just have no clue how to get the top covers apart and get things working again. The 35 S (fixed prism) only needs a battery cover and some cleaning inside the viewfinder/prism, all speeds seem to work correct, but on the 35 CS (interchangeable thingies) nothing works, self-timer is stuck and it rewinds, but fires only at top speed.
Anybody out there who can help me with that?
see ya,
Philipp
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PeterW
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Post by PeterW on Sept 16, 2006 13:36:50 GMT -5
Hi Philipp, Sorry to have to say that the Icarex wasn't one of Zeiss Ikon's best cameras in that factory quality control seemed to have slipped somewhat. It was a high-spec camera, very sophisticated for its day, and had very good reviews when it first came out, but unfortunately earned itself a most un-ZI like reputation for unreliability. It was made during the time that both ZI and Voigtländer were in financial problems and merged, so that may account for it. I haven't got any details on taking the top off, but Robert Ian Axford's site has a couple of pictures of one with the top off which you might find helpful. Try www.photographic.co.nz/cameraworks/cameras/icarex35s/PeterW. |
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orwopan
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Post by orwopan on Sept 16, 2006 15:44:07 GMT -5
Peter,
thanks for the link...useful starting point. I agree, the Icarex is heavily overpriced....it's feel (and weight) is impressive, bit the handling is rather strange.....and the ZI lenses are very simple built.....compared with Zeiss Jena optics. I disassembled and cleaned the Skoparex 3.4/35mm in less than fifteen minutes...needed more time for some polish enlarger optics recently...I think I will try to clean the 35S next week, will tell you about my success...
see ya,
Philipp
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Post by PeterW on Sept 16, 2006 17:57:55 GMT -5
Hi,
The Skoparex was never a Zeiss, nor Zeiss-Ikon lens, it was a pup off the Skopar, and was a Voigtländer design. Voigtländer made some very fine lenses but IMHO they never had the brilliantly innovative lens designers like Bertele, Klughardt, Merte and so on that Carl Zeiss had in Jena.
PeterW
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orwopan
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Post by orwopan on Sept 19, 2006 16:51:32 GMT -5
I have just finished the first one of my two Icarex, the fixed prism S. taking off the top cover wasn´t that difficult (stoopid me!), the viewfinder suffered from deteriorated foam that was sticking simply everywhere...believe it or not, the prism is only held in place by two strips of black plastic adhesive tape! Even my Zenits seem to be better built.....  I digged around the attic and found an neverready case, so I will go out and test the camera (and the lenses) these days. Of course I will have to use my handheld meter, ´cause the battery cover is still missing and no chance to get one, even on EPay. see ya, Philipp p.s: Peter: you are right, even the so called "Tessar" is simply a rebadged Voigtländer "Skopar", same formula (four lenses in three groups) but behaving different... the other names are also used to Voigtländer users: Super-Dynarex 4.0/135mm and Ultron 2.0/50... |
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Post by dipol on Apr 9, 2009 11:37:59 GMT -5
Hi !
Two years later I have the same problem as Phillip. I want to get the cover off of my Icarex 35S. Unvortunately Phillip has not told us how he has done it.
I have the problem that I don't know how to loosen the Nut at the cocking lever side without damaging something. Has anybody an idea?
Thank you very much in advance!
#Christian
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Post by coisasdavida on Jul 31, 2009 16:12:22 GMT -5
Hello Christian, Philip and Peter, Greetings from Brazil! I just finished working on a Zeiss Icon Icarex 35S BM. In order to remove the screw on the top of the advance lever you have to rotate it clockwise instead of counterclockwise. That's about it. That's is as far as I had to go on the top of this 35S. Mine had a broken spring inside the shutter speed dial just under a brass ring bellow the advance lever. This spring (flat) pressured a ball bearing against the axis of the advance lever making the shutter speed dial click when moved from one speed to another. My speed dial was loose. I replaced the spring with a piece of a spring from a Nikon N50 back that was lying around here. Used scissors to get the right size. On the bottom I removed two screws in order to get inside this 35S to retension the curtains. Easy to figure out. Can't really tell if the speeds are any good, but since I won't use a lightmeter, there's no point... Back to work condition. Cheers, Gui refotografia.wordpress.com/ |
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Post by paulhofseth on Nov 10, 2013 2:35:28 GMT -5
Ultron dust removal.
The excellent search function turned up this thread. I assume that someone here may have been dusting off the innards of the Icarex Ultron 50 (the concave front element version). If so; how to start?
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Post by melek on Jan 20, 2014 12:04:59 GMT -5
The pentaprisms on the Contaflex SLRs also are held in place by black tape and often by a foam that by now has disintegrated and turned into a fine dust that quickly gets on to the viewing screen.
By the way, if you ever have a bad prism in an Icarex 35S, you can use a pentaprism from the Voigtlander Bassamatic.
No kidding. It works just fine. I did this with an Icarex 35S that had a bad pentaprism.
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I digged around the attic and found an neverready case, so I will go out and test the camera (and the lenses) these days. Of course I will have to use my handheld meter, ´cause the battery cover is still missing and no chance to get one, even on EPay.
