Ross-Ensign's
Fulvueflex Synchroflash was a
pseudo TLR, made from 1957 to 1959. It followed the line of the
Ful-Vue Super, but now sported a plastic (polystyrene
[1]) body and lenses, and unlike the 620-film Ful-Vue Super, the Fulvueflex returned to using
120 film. The "Astaross" lens is
fixed-focus, with no choice of aperture, and the shutter has a single instantaneous speed and a B setting. The body splits in half diagonally for film loading, released by turning a small metal plate on either side.
The Yashica FX-D is a 35mm film single-lens reflex camera. Although the camera is manual, it does feature an "Automatic Exposure" mode in which the photographer selects the lens aperture, and the camera selects the correct shutter speed. The camera also features the ability to dial in exposure compensation, and you could mount an external film winder to the bottom of the camera. Later models feature a "Quartz-timed" electronically controlled shutter.
The Contaflex I and II
The
Contaflex I, launched in 1953, was equipped with a fixed Zeiss Tessar 45mm f:2.8 lens with front-cell focusing. The very first Contaflex I had a Synchro-Compur shutter with the old scale of shutter speeds (1-2-5-10-20-50-100-250-500), but very soon it adopted the new scale 1-2-4-8-15-30-60-125-250-500.
The
Contaflex II, introduced the following year, was the same camera with an uncoupled
selenium meter added to one side of the front plate.
Both had a fixed lens but to the front of which could be attached a supplementary lens, called the Teleskop 1.7x.
