{"id":20352,"date":"2021-04-14T01:25:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T05:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=20352"},"modified":"2021-04-14T13:55:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:55:51","slug":"werra-you-been-my-blue-eyed-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/werra-you-been-my-blue-eyed-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Werra you been, my blue-eyed son?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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mid 1950s Werra 1 courtesy of Camera-Wiki and Dries van den Elzen<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. After the Second World War, Zeiss and Jena ended up in the Soviet zone of Germany (East Germany<\/a>). A western version of Zeiss was quickly moved to Oberkochen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The East German Zeiss continued to manufacture optical instruments. Cameras<\/a> were made for both Eastern and Western consumption. One such line of cameras in the 1950s and 60s was the futuristic Werra<\/a>. Most cameras came with a Tessar normal lens although legal issues blocked any cameras sold in the west from using the name Tessar.<\/p>\n

The Werra<\/a> line was elegant and minimalist, suggesting a design for the future. The cameras often appeared in our fairs and were listed in McKeown’s price guides. (I use the 11th edition – 2001\/2002). The image upper left is courtesy of Dries van den Elzen<\/a><\/small>\u00a0whose Flickr stream may be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Note: The post title is a riff on a line from the 1962\u00a0Bob Dylan<\/a> song<\/a>, “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall<\/a>“.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. After the Second World War, Zeiss and Jena ended up in the Soviet zone of Germany (East Germany). A western version of Zeiss was quickly moved to Oberkochen. The East German Zeiss continued to manufacture optical instruments. Cameras were … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[3618,58,2819,1171,3619],"class_list":["post-20352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-east-german","tag-history","tag-jena","tag-tessar","tag-werra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20352"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20375,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20352\/revisions\/20375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}