Affordable holiday gifts for photographers are hard to come by, but I’d be over the moon to receive a 1:1 wooden mock-up of my favorite film camera ...

Few cameras have greater appeal to shutterbugs around the world than Germany’s famed Zeiss Contax. But Zeiss has had its troubles making it. At war’s end. It lost its huge plant at Jena, along with ...

Open wide: Zeiss Ikon has oversized viewfinder eyepiece, all the better to see the whole picture area. Like the Bessa it has useful window to show you what film’s inside.

Greg Bedore's eyes gleam as they scan his 8-by-18-foot scarlet- and silver-lined display, encasing 135 Zeiss Ikon cameras. In fact, he cannot take his eyes off it. "It's a sickness, I tell you," ...

This Zeiss Ikon camera was bought in Canada complete with a roll of film inside. The slide mechanism allows you to zoom in and out. Zeiss were the first company to make hand-held cameras which opened ...