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Werra series came from an old glossy, namely the March/April. Dutch camera magazine Camera Magazine. When I returned. home with my new acquisition, I immediately dug it up from the slush of. Camera Magazines that litter my room, re- read the story, and decided to. All the background information in this article, therefore. Background. After the Second World War, Carl Zeiss was divided into a West German and an. Tuesday 26th April 2016 Bickerton Hills Walk followed by Beer and Skittles: Following exhaustive considerations within committee to decide how our 'on location' evening was to be spent, it was decided that the previous years. Were Diana Johnstone, author of Queen of Chaos, to bump into Samantha Power in a dark alley, both would be instantly annihilated in a blaze of energy. For Johnstone, is the anti-Samantha Power, best known for her. East German division. The East German division, Carl Zeiss Jena, lost a lot of. Russians, who deported them to create cameras for the. Motherland. When they slowly started trickling back in the early 1. Zeiss. Jena didn't have an immediate use for their expertise. They realised however. Werra. cameras. Manufactured in the Ernst Abbe Werk of Eisfeld, they were named after. The main idea behind the whole Werra series, its unique selling point, was. This ring, which is the big carpeted ring near the. A very rapid, very sure, very smooth twist. Because Werras weren't Zeiss Jena's core business (optics was), production. Two years after the production was initialised in 1. The original Werra was a very basic camera with a. Novonar triplet in a Vebur shutter with a maximum speed of. Its appearance was dominated by its olive skin color, which was changed. Zeiss finally got the word that everybody hates olive. Other models followed: Name. Description. Werra IA like the I but with a Synchro- Compur shutter. Werra II like the I but with an uncoupled light meter with lid. Werra III like the I but with a rangefinder, three frames, diopter adjustment, interchangeable lenses, and a slightly larger sun shade. Werra IV a combination of the II and III. Then come the black models, supplied between 1. After 1. 96. 0, they. Name. Description. Werra I like the olive I. Werra IB like the IA, with Vebur 2. Prestor RVS5. 00 shutter. Werra IC like the IB, with an accessory shoe. Werra II like the olive II. Werra III like the olive III. Werra IV like the olive IV. Werra V like the IV, but with a coupled light meter with lid. Werramatic like the V but without the light meter lid. Werramat like the Werramatic but without the interchangeable lenses and the rangefinder. Then, between 1. 96. E models with a rounder top, striped. The E classification is not on. Name. Description. Werra I E as the I black. Werra II E as the II black. Werra III E as the III black. Werramatic E as the Werramatic black. Werramat E as the Werramat black. Werramat Super as the Werramat E, but with aperture preselect. Werra Supermat as the Werramat Super. The Werramat Super and the Werra Supermat are extremely rare: their combined. Despite good sales, the Werra series was discontinued in 1. Carl. Zeiss Jena was assimilated by VEB Pentacon in 1. Pentacon's director. Siegfried B. Other. Pentacon group were making viewfinder cameras too, and B. Since I'm not familiar with those models, I. For the average consumer, there was something of a . For the more upmarket models, there were two. Flektogon 3. 5mm f/2. Cardinar 1. 00mm f/4. There were Werralux hand- held selenium light meters. Werras, a close- up kit, even a stereo prefix lens and viewer. Mr. TThe early Werras had Novonar 5. Zeiss later. upgraded to T (or Jena- T) 5. You're right to think . Those. rights lay with Carl Zeiss Wetzlar in West Germany, which apparently didn't give. However. the eastern spin- off factory had no trouble with copying the design, and. Take this. tell- tale quote from a Dutch sales brochure, that pussyfoots the issue in a not. Geez, talk about a public secret!(Fun corroborational fact: the Russians fitted cameras like the Lubitel- 2 and the Voskhod with. T', only their 'T' was short for 'Triplet'. In how far this was. I don't know. Probably not at. Russians and Tessars?)To confuse things, some of the early olive Werra's do have real Tessars from. Jena. I take it they started out using the full name, irated Zeiss Wetzlar, and. The more advanced Werras had a simple bayonet mount and interchangeable. In total, there were three focals available for the demanding. T(essar) 5. 0mm f/2. Flektogon 3. 5mm. Cardinar 1. 00mm f/4. Good luck finding the last two. You change. lenses by twisting a ring on the tube to release the currently mounted lens. You. lift out the lens, place a new one, twist the ring again, and everything's. Maybe the only drawback to this easy system is that the. The interchangeable lens system is actually quite an engineering feat when. Lots of information is being transferred between the lens. The distance (which you. To create a coupling that's at once easy to use and. Zeiss engineers. So far I've only shot one film in my Werra, a cheap colour film and not under. I can only give a qualitative impression of what the. At full open, the image is soft, a bit fuzzy, and there is. The bokeh at this aperture is classic: not silky soft. This isn't really a work aperture. As you stop the lens down, the. It's always hard to judge from color neg, but I. I can say that the frames are very sharp, with a very slight decrease of. The optimal aperture is something in the range of f/8. T is sharp and rich of contrast. I would describe the T's overall. Whew, that's. acumen in commentary.. Shutters. The earliest Werras had Vebur shutters up to 1/2. Synchro- Compur shutters. However, when the Gauthier/Compur factory. Zeiss Ikon in 1. 95. Zeiss Jena. stopped, and the factory had to manufacture its own replacements. The Jena- built. Prestor RVS5. RVS7. 50 shutters (the number indicates the maximum speed) that. Zeiss Jena engineered are considered to be very good. My Werra has a Prestor. RVS7. 50 that still works like clockwork. My Werramatic is an E model, number 6. There is some circumstantial. Its lens is the removable T 5. The. purchase included the eveready case and the conical lens cap . Not only in esthetic terms, but technically too. The bayonet mount with. The viewfinder is. The top. plate is uncluttered, and the shutter release is soft to the touch, just the. The camera. itself isn't exceptional in terms of size or weight, and though some might call. The plastic cone around the lens is a useful and smart accessory. Either you. screw it into the transport ring so that it covers the lens tube and guards. When it covers the lens and the. Excellent for. rainy conditions. The only bad thing about the cap is that it has a tendency to. The V- shaped. splinters that causes are typical among Werras of all vintage. Viewfinder. My Werramatic E is a late model with a much improved albada viewfinder. The. areas of view for all three lenses are indicated by black hairline frames with. The shutter speed and aperture values are mirrored into the. In the center is an oblong. Russian cameras, in that it's sharply. Where the Russian cameras want you to overlap images. Werramatic demands that you align them along the boundaries of the. The light meter readout is in the bottom of the viewfinder, and consists of a. T. When the needle. T, the values you've set are correct. Creating a. light meter like this for a camera requires that it . To that end, most cameras have a linked light meter with. The solution. Zeiss Ikon chose to achieve the coupling is rather beautiful and ingenious: as. It has, in effect, its own separate. This of course requires more optical parts and another piece of. The Werramatic in use. On the whole, a working Werramatic is a fine user camera. But before I start. I'll deal with of some of the minor drawbacks, so they won't stick. First of all, the transport ring rotates to the left, while a. Now you. have to grip over the camera, while otherwise your hand would have moved from. Also, the protective cone doesn't. I guess it. works fine if you leave it on like a sunshade, but it doesn't work when you. In practice, I ended up carrying it around in my. Thirdly, the little plastic grips on. Trying to reset one value. The up side is that it's very easy. Then for the good parts. The rotating transport ring really works, first of. It's quick and it's fast, and it saves a lot of hassle. Pity the rotational. The shutter release button is excellent in its. The rangefinder system is less useful than the transparent. Russian version for small jagged objects like birds at long distance, but for. The viewfinder is very clear, and the. Framing the 5. 0mm through a 3. SLRs, it's what's. The Tesssar has a relatively long focusing trajectory, which did give. I want to complain about. The ever ready case has a fairly tight fit. Uncomfortable, but not. Too bad it's not detachable. The case has a cut- out in the. It also has a long strap.
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