Zeiss Ikon Ikonta 524/2 Medium Format Camera 105mm f3.5 Lens Work Well Germany

Description

This older camera appears to be in excellent cosmetic condition for it's age, the glass is clean and clear with no scratches, fungus or haze, coating is great. tested in good working order, shutter speeds sound accurate, selftimer work well.
The Ikonta 524/2 was made in the early 1950s. It’s a folding, medium format camera that shoots a 6×9 negative. This means you get a whole 8 photos per 120 film. When collapsed, the camera is surprisingly portable and will even fit into a (large) pocket so I guess it definitely qualifies as compact, at least by medium format camera standards.
This Ikonta 524/2 has a 105 f3.5 Novar lens with a maximum shutter speed of 1/250. The viewfinder is not exactly large and you do get quite a bit of the extended bellows in your field of view. There are also no parallax correction indications or other guides, which needs to be considered when framing close subjects.
There is an uncoupled split screen rangefinder which uses a second, tiny finder to the main viewfinder. It’s quite small and takes a bit of practice to get the hang of. Also, in low light it becomes very hard to use. The fact that the rangefinder is not coupled means that you need to set the distance in the finder, then read the value off the dial on the top and set the same value on the lens itself.
The camera also has a very fancy, cutting edge, double exposure protection – a little field turns red after the film has been wound on a bit (not however the full amount necessary for a frame). There are 2 shutter releases, one on the body, and one at the front of the lens. The one on the body will not fire unless the film has been wound on – if using the release on the lens itself it doesn’t make a difference.
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