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From: "Bob Shell"
Subject: Re: which camera to buy?
The first series of lenses for a 35mm SLR that had no aperture rings were
the Carl Zeiss lenses for Contarex cameras, first introduced in 1958.
Aperture was set using a control wheel on the camera body. In this photo
of the original Contarex you can see the control wheel to the left of the
lens:
http://www.mediajoy.com/en/cla_came/contarex/index.html
You can click through the photos to see how this worked.
So, you see we've come full circle back to an idea which was really new
in 1958! It just took everyone else this long to catch up to Zeiss.
Umm Bob, didn't the Contarex have the aperture and rear lens group in the
body, and the lens was a just a barrel with glass?
William Robb
