Contax carl zeiss jena ikon camera with its case

The device we offer here is one of those famous "contax" model "carl zeiss jena" of "zeiss ikon". When you pronounce "contax" in front of a collector, you make him listen, the names of "carl zeiss jena" (created in stuttgart in 1846) and "ikon" only stoke his desire to know more. "contax" is a famous german brand of cameras manufactured between 1932 and 1972. "zeiss ikon" (created in 1926) produced rather small instruments. It is a business philosophy that will be pursued by yashica and then kyocera until the end of 2005. Carl zeiss is also german, born in weimar in 1816. A scientist, he quickly became interested in optics, even though it did not yet have its scientific credentials. But the adventure is difficult in its beginnings and nothing then can predict the immense success of the cameras that we know well. Indeed, after the war, while dresden is a devastated city, it is in stuttgart that the engineers working on the first "contax" will make it evolve in a masterful way.