Zeiss Develops Reflex Model and Faster Lens Photographers, both professional and amateur, have had reason 16 think that' perfection has pedi reached in the design. of modern miniature cameras. Automatic focussing with a coupled range-finder and the Impossibility of double exposure has marked a notable advance In tamara construction In recent years, but now comes interesting details of further developments and even higher precision, Mr. Wilhelm Wohlfabrt, director of the Zeiss-thon Compaily Dresden, who is here on a round-the-world busittss trip, gave a Nort-China Herald" representative an_ outline of recent advances.
Several new models will be offered at varying prices, which are equipped with built-in photo-electric exposure meters, ensuring accurate exposures Ju poorly lighted places or under artificial light; built-in self-timers for delayed shutter action, and other aids. 'These new models' are foolproof in every respect. Sharp pictures are a certainty with the new Jens-coupled range-finder and oxposure meter. while double exposures ar a physical impossibility.
'A Jons even more rapid' than the test now obtainable, with a work-1 aperture of {/1. and possibly Jower, and measurably approaching the human eye in seeing power, is now perfected but not yet on sale.
'The "Contattex," which Is the first camera with a' built-in exposure meter, combines the other camera features of the Contax type with the advantages of 9 reflex camera, A modification of this without the reflex finder but with an improved prism range-finder, in which for the first time the field-of-view and the range-finder window are combined, will be the new Contax IIT camera, Mr, Wohlfahrt predicted that within the next five years a film size even smaller than the present miniature 24 x 36mm. will be in use, viz, a 24 x 2mm, size with an even smaller model camera, He remarked that it was the ambition of the makers to design eventually a camera producing as good results as. at present with a 16mm. Alm, Mr, Wohlfahrt arrived here from Germany by way of "America and plang to visit French Indo-China, the Straits and India before returning to Dresden, where he is the head of the official department of industry ind commerce, He left Shanghai on Friday for a visit to north China,
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