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Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta B 532/16 Reviews Posted by Bengt Köhler Sandberg 2012-02-07  Made between 1937-56 One of the best medium format cameras you could own in the late 30s Specs: Lens: Zeiss - Opton Tessar 80mm f/2,8 Aperture: f/2,8 - f/22 10 bladed aperure Shutter: Compur Rapid 1/400 sec to 1 sec plus a Bulb setting Takes standard 120 film You get 11 6x6 images per roll Automatic film advance stop Double-exposure prevention Built in range finder in the viewfinder that is very easy to use. Image quality This lens is bearing the famous red T that Zeiss best lenses do. But is it that good that one expect? f/2,8
Center Sharpness It has really good center sharpness even wide open  Download full
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f/2,8 Corner Sharpness Like most of these type of lenses you have corner sharpness problems wide open. And unfortunately this one suffers a bit from that as well.  Download full size image. Here (up to 5mb) f/11 Stop it down and it's really great like one expect.  Download full size image. Here (up to 5mb) f/16  Download full size image. Here (up to 5mb) Bokeh Really nice!  Download full size image. Here (up to 5mb) More sample images can be found at: http://www.sample-image.com/zeiss-ikon-super-ikonta-b-53216/
This is a class of its own. The normal Ikona cameras have a great build quality, but this is even better. But the downside to this is that its alot heavier. Conclusion I must say I enjoy using this camera. Its not perfect and there are some thing you wish was better. But good things overshadow the bad things by miles. Corner sharpness wide open is not the best and it feels like Zeiss overdid the lens so thy could sell a f/2,8 that was quite a big thing in the 30s. If you compare this to the Novar - Anastigmat 75mm f/3,5 the Tessar lens is still a lot better at all apertures! Thumbs up: Build quality Picture quality Easy to use compared to many similar cameras Thumbs down: Corner sharpness wide open 11 images per roll Want to help
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