You have to love Zeiss. With my Contax II came two filters, light and medium yellow, in neat clamshell Baekelite cases 42mm slip-on for the Sonnar. On the very outside of the glass is the Zeiss-Ikon doublet logo.Go for Carl Zeiss S35.5 filters or for Zeiss Ikon 353 S35.5 filters (you will find them definitely on ebay) - those filters for both -the Tessars and Novars of the Ikontas- are 35.5mm inner diameter, and they screwed onto the outside of the lens.
I found mine at ebay.de - I have a Super Ikona III 531/16 with Novar lens. Size for slip-on filters -and hoods- is 32mm (some say those 32mm slip-on filters will cause vignetting - I never tried them.
I have a 1946 Summitar, and I've had both R and M Summicrons, two Summarits; I prefer the Summitar to any of the aformentioned 50s. The Sonnar 5cm/f:2, the prewar uncoated collapsible, is another favorite - it's aptly named.macfred: Thanks for your help. I have found a lens hood that's the 1111 and fits over a yellow filter like the ones you linked for green and blue. Sadly, a red filter that came from the same source as the yellow filter does not work. Very close, but I think the threads are wrong. So I've also come up empty on UV filters so far and thought to check here.
my III has the Novar lens. So far the only 35.5mm UV I've seen isn't a Zeiss, and might not actually screw ON as opposed to in. This is a VERY handy camera so far in my testing of it. While I'll admit the resolution isn't as fine as a 80MM Rollei 2.8 PQ (for the 6008 Integral) it is pretty doggone good.One thing I do notice is that the edges of the frames are all soft, and there is a very tiny bit of vignetting at the edges, too. I tend to imagine this is the norm. Is that so?
E: Yes, Zeiss... it's a love affair. I know some love their Summilux and Summicrons, Noctilux and so on, but I'll take a Zeiss lens any day. THanks for the encouragement!
bunnip: Yes, I would, but would like to have a filter that works with the lens hood more. Thanks! but truth is... there aren't a lot of those either. Many 32mm filters aren't thin enough to fit into the slot on the camera.
It's not a matter of thickness, in the slip-in slot you can see 3 screws that prevent the filter to slip in unless you have the right filter with 3 holes corresponding to the 3 screws. You can also take a common slip-on filter and file just the 3 parts according to screws positions. This will allow you to use any slip-on filter if adapted.Many 32mm filters aren't thin enough to fit into the slot on the camera.
You have to love Zeiss ...
You need a prewar Contax.GR: Thanks! Will do. Yes... what WERE they thinking? "We are very clever Germans, and we have a way of doing this filter thing no one else will even imagine....yes... and it will work amazingly.... and we don't mind if it annoys you. You know in your head... we're right and all the others are wrong. Our way... is the only way and better."
And it does. They were right it is amazing and clever and better.... and annoys me. And all the other solutions ... are just more available. The cleverness in the Ikonta is classic and better in many ways... like a Rollei, and similarly maddening at the same time. "We want you to filter your images only with filters we have tested. Otherwise who knows what might happen? The results could just be terrible, and we would not want you to blame our camera for a poor result when in fact we know it's the filter that wrecked things! And so we are trying only to protect aspiring photographers from potential mistakes." Yes... probably true.
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