I loaded a roll into this the other day and started shooting with it. It is a Contax II with a serial number on it's top and inside the back of it's rear cover that starts with a "Q". It's chrome and finish on it's metal parts is noticeably rougher and cheaper looking than the pre-war Contax II cameras I have. I think it is interesting that the serial number of it's lens is exactly 170 higher than an LTM Sonnar 1.5 that is on a Leica IIIb here. One theory is that these cameras were put together immediately after the end of WWII in a few different places either in Germany or Russia, I don't know the entire story for sure, but maybe nobody does. It was probably not assembled in circumstances as happy as the 1930s Zeiss cameras were for sure. In our harsh winters I get backed up on shooting, I may have three or four cameras laying around with film in them I can shoot with. I know there is a pre-war Exacta, a Contaflex and a Retina that was in the Berlin air-lift loaded up and I would have to look to see what else.
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