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Pentacon AK8 – 8mm Cine Camera



                                               When the Zeiss Ikon Company was
                                               founded in 1926 by a merger of four
                                               different German camera makers,
                                               Ernemann's renowned cine camera
                                               product line was continued. Astoundingly
                                               the amateur cine camera branch was
                                               continued after 1945 in the postwar
                                               state-owned socialist East German VEB
                                               Zeiss Ikon.

                                               One fine example is the sturdy, nicely
                                               designed, spring-motor-driven viewfinder
                                               movie camera Pentacon AK8 for "double
                                               8" (or "regular 8") cine film. The camera
                                               took spools of double perforated 16mm
                                               film 7.5 metres (25ft) in length.

                                               A small window in the back showed the
                                               used film length in metres. A tab in the
                                               reverse Galilean viewfinder indicated film
        end. The lens was a non-focusable 2.8/10 Zeiss Jena Triotar which could be stopped down
        from f2.8 to f11. With aperture f2.8 depth of field was from 2.1 metres to infinity, with f11
        from 77cm to infinity. The shutter had a fixed speed of 1/32 sec. at 16 frames per second, and
        selectable exposure modes were continuous (D), shutter release controlled (L) and single shot
        (E).The camera also incorporated a film back-wind handle for double exposure for fades or
                                               dissolves.


















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