Werra Mat Review

The werra camera was manufactured by carl zeiss jena a german manufacturer for optics and industrial devices.

Werra mat review. The werra is a series of 35mm viewfinder or rangefinder cameras manufactured by the carl zeiss jena factory which was primarily a lens making plant. Carl zeiss werra mat strip down images when i first received the camera the immediate obvious problems were that the lens unit was loose on the body of the camera the front identification plate was mis aligned the small adjustment controls on the lens for aperture and shutter speed were missing and the shutter blades were sluggish at. The werra 2 has an uncoupled meter in the top plate but no rangefinder. The one standout feature they are well known for is the twist on the lens mount for advancing the film on to the next frame and cocking the shutter.

In their simplest incarnations the werras featured only a shutter release button on the top plate. And the werramatic is a 3 with a mat style meter. The 4 and 5 each have a rangefinder and uncoupled meter. The werra 2 is a viewfinder camera produced by carl zeiss jena in 1957 until 1961.

Werra mat reassembly process the case of the camera was quite dirty and stained and i cleaned that with an old toothbrush very lightly damped with soapy water. The cameras offer a high degree of control with a minimum number of levers knobs or rings. Other than the word werra embossed in the olive colored leatherette on the back of the camera there is nothing to indicate its origin. The 3 has a coupled rangefinder but no meter.

My werra has a prestor rvs750 that still works like clockwork. The werra is named after a small german river. Carl zeiss werramat staff review 5 18 share tweet. The werra is named after a small german river.

But it was made in the carl zeiss jena factory in east germany. The werra isn t the most common looking of cameras yet its spartan design and bauhaus attributes are particularly beautiful to my eye. The earlier werra cameras have novonar lenses with all subsequent models paired with tessar lenses. There is some circumstantial evidence to indicate that the first letter of the serial number is the last letter of the year of manufacture meaning that my camera could be a 1966 model but this is unsure.

After a good scrub with the toothbrush and a wipe down with some lint free cloth i then used another old toothbrush with a very small amount of black shoe polish to bring back the colour. The werra is a series of 35mm viewfinder or rangefinder cameras manufactured by the carl zeiss jena factory which was primarily a lens making plant. My werramatic is an e model number 648702.