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Item Name : Carl Zeiss West Germany Zeiss Ikon TMK 9x12cm (4x5inch) camera with Zeiss Topogon 60mm f11
Serial no. : 119859,116552
Description : The Zeiss TMK camera is a special messure camera for terristical photographing. TMK means Terristical Messure Camera, so the lens is not made especially for air photographing like the most of the Topogon lenses, it is made for standard field use and for standard films. The Topogon 11/60mm is a high end quality lens with an angle of view of over 100° with absolutely no distorsion and minimal vignitation. For the kind of using the camera it is absolutely needed that the lens has a 100% plain transmission. The lens is mounted in a Syncro Compur I shutter with the speeds of 1-1/400sec B,T. The shutter works mechanically, no batterie and no special equipment is needed to cock the shutter or release it. The shutter works perfect in all speeds. The camera is prepared for 9x12 film holders, I guess a special Zeiss version, The back of the camera moves when the shutter spanning level is in work, so it is possible to focus the lens but this is not really important, with the fixed aperture f11 the DOF is large enough to get sharp images in a range of ~ 1.5- infinity. It is possible to remove the lens out of the camera if you want to use it with your Sinar, Linhof, Cambo, Calument, Plaubel, Toyo etc. but I don't want it because the TMK is a so rare camera that it were a beautiful example of my collection. It is also possible to rebuild the back of the camera to use rollfilm holders or standard sheet film holders. The new price for this camera were over $25.000 in the early 70’s.
Remark :
Grade : 98%MINT
Price : $6000
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