Werra Mat Camera

The werra isn t the most common looking of cameras yet its spartan design and bauhaus attributes are particularly beautiful to my eye.

Werra mat camera.

The werra is named after a small german river. The 3 has a coupled rangefinder but no meter. Its appearance was dominated by its olive skin color which was changed to black in 1957 when zeiss finally got the word that everybody hates olive drab. On this example the name werra mat is printed on the front but an otherwise identical model that just has werra printed can also be found.

In a exhibition at leipzig they were called the volkskamera the peoples camera. Click here to go to main camera manual site right click on link below choose save target as save to folder of your choice acrobat 7 0 or foxit pdf needed to read it. The original werra was a very basic camera with a fixed 50mm f 3 5 novonar triplet in a vebur shutter with a maximum speed of 1 250s. The 4 and 5 each have a rangefinder and uncoupled meter.

This shutter was a bit of a nightmare to work on as the various components were screwed in from behind which. But it was made in the carl zeiss jena factory in east germany. The cameras offer a high degree of control with a minimum number of levers knobs or rings. The werra 2 has an uncoupled meter in the top plate but no rangefinder.

Vintage werra tessar 2 8 50 camera with carl zeiss lens. The werramat is a 1 with a coupled meter and read out in the viewfinder. Werra i 4 werra mat werra matic posted 11 10 07. The werra is a series of 35mm viewfinder or rangefinder cameras manufactured by the carl zeiss jena factory which was primarily a lens making plant.

In their simplest incarnations the werras featured only a shutter release button on the top plate. Werra it s the name of a small river close to the factory. Carl zeiss werra mat camera. Werra 1 4 werra mat werra matic instruction manual.

These cameras are completely original. Second version of the carl zeiss jena werramat with tessar lens in prestor rvs shutter. And the werramatic is a 3 with a mat style meter. The next page contains information on this camera.

The cameras offer a high degree of control with a minimum number of levers knobs or rings. The werra is a series of 35mm viewfinder or rangefinder cameras manufactured by the carl zeiss jena factory which was primarily a lens making plant. The werra is named after a small german river.