One of my friends who restaures old cameras proposed me 2 edixa : one like this one and the other with a pentaprism. As I couldn’t t décidé with one I prefred (they are really beautiful and well made) I bought them two (he made me a good price).
Im just curious, do you happen to know what that little loop is sticking out into the viewfinder? I have an Edixa Mod-D.and mine has the same and ive always wondered what function it serves
In 1960, I was loosing interest in my first serious 35mm camera, a Contax II, because Zeiss was neglecting modernization. In searching for a new SLR, I settled on a Nikon (expensive & flexible), a Pentax (less expensive with tons of lenses and accessories) and an Edixa Mat. The Edixa had a lot of features, was very well built, but it's future development seemed in question from my 14 year old perspective. I decided that Pentax devotion to the 42mm thread lens mount was a dead end for the future (I underestimated them), so my very hard earned money and some parental help went down on a Nikkorex F (cheaper than an F) and a just issued 50mm 1.4 (marvelous lens for its day). College and law school diverted my attention from photography thereafter. I used that one body/one lens until 1976, when I got serious again and bought a new Nikon body and lenses in Japan. The Edixa Mat would have been a dead end, as it used a proprietary lens mount, and the maker stopped making any cameras about 4 years later.
Hi Randall, thanks for your memories. It‘s really interesting to hear, because my time on earth started 24 years later and I am just going back in time photography wise, as I am a digital native in terms of cameras. I do enjoy very much that I can go into lots and lots of film cameras of different eras and found out how the people had to manage the photography. The Edixa mat was my first camera with a top level viewfinder and added a totally new perspective on photography, literally. Of course Nikon was also a very big brand in time and from todays view a wise decision. I was always a canon shooter and therefore had no Nikon ever, but the last week I saw a video of the Nikon FE2 and it’s 1/4000th shutter speed and got also fixed to it. Maybe some day there will be a Nikon in my collection, too. But at the end one question: my edixa mat has a 42mm thread mount. As I looked around I didn’t found another lens mount online. What proprietary lens mount did you mean?
@@manugeee You know, that was my recollection, but I may just have been wrong. That it shared the M42 screw mount makes more sense. The Edixa Mat sort of fit into that secondary tier of cameras coming out of the post war companies on both sides of the East/West German divide. The Practica/Pentacon models being the Eastern options. Most of them used the M42 muont, which was made popular by Pentax, but actually was introduced earlier by the Pentacon group of camera makers.
I did not for this video. At this time I was more experimenting with shooting through the waist level viewfinder. Today I send some film to the lab, there are some images I took in the same area. And made a little fototour video from.
One of my friends who restaures old cameras proposed me 2 edixa : one like this one and the other with a pentaprism. As I couldn’t t décidé with one I prefred (they are really beautiful and well made) I bought them two (he made me a good price).
But you know that you can change the waist level Viewfinder with the pentaprism? I also love the edixa. The waist level viewfinder is so bright. 🥹😀
@@manugeee yes yes I know but the 2 pieces side by side on my vitrine look beautiful ;)
@@philmtx3fr that is a valid argument 😇
Im just curious, do you happen to know what that little loop is sticking out into the viewfinder? I have an Edixa Mod-D.and mine has the same and ive always wondered what function it serves
It is an indication if the shutter is cocked or not (or not cocked or cocked). :-)
In 1960, I was loosing interest in my first serious 35mm camera, a Contax II, because Zeiss was neglecting modernization. In searching for a new SLR, I settled on a Nikon (expensive & flexible), a Pentax (less expensive with tons of lenses and accessories) and an Edixa Mat. The Edixa had a lot of features, was very well built, but it's future development seemed in question from my 14 year old perspective. I decided that Pentax devotion to the 42mm thread lens mount was a dead end for the future (I underestimated them), so my very hard earned money and some parental help went down on a Nikkorex F (cheaper than an F) and a just issued 50mm 1.4 (marvelous lens for its day). College and law school diverted my attention from photography thereafter. I used that one body/one lens until 1976, when I got serious again and bought a new Nikon body and lenses in Japan. The Edixa Mat would have been a dead end, as it used a proprietary lens mount, and the maker stopped making any cameras about 4 years later.
Hi Randall, thanks for your memories. It‘s really interesting to hear, because my time on earth started 24 years later and I am just going back in time photography wise, as I am a digital native in terms of cameras. I do enjoy very much that I can go into lots and lots of film cameras of different eras and found out how the people had to manage the photography. The Edixa mat was my first camera with a top level viewfinder and added a totally new perspective on photography, literally.
Of course Nikon was also a very big brand in time and from todays view a wise decision. I was always a canon shooter and therefore had no Nikon ever, but the last week I saw a video of the Nikon FE2 and it’s 1/4000th shutter speed and got also fixed to it. Maybe some day there will be a Nikon in my collection, too.
But at the end one question: my edixa mat has a 42mm thread mount. As I looked around I didn’t found another lens mount online. What proprietary lens mount did you mean?
@@manugeee You know, that was my recollection, but I may just have been wrong. That it shared the M42 screw mount makes more sense. The Edixa Mat sort of fit into that secondary tier of cameras coming out of the post war companies on both sides of the East/West German divide. The Practica/Pentacon models being the Eastern options. Most of them used the M42 muont, which was made popular by Pentax, but actually was introduced earlier by the Pentacon group of camera makers.
I wonder if there is a mix-up with Exakta‘s proprietary lens mount.
@@manugeee I confirm Edixa is only M42. Exacta is proprietary.
I have 2 Edixa mat and if i remember right it has a m42 mount.
Are you not going to take an actual picture with it then?
I did not for this video. At this time I was more experimenting with shooting through the waist level viewfinder. Today I send some film to the lab, there are some images I took in the same area. And made a little fototour video from.