A new Kickstarter project has an interesting take on the retro-is-new craze sweeping everything, cameras included. This time it's capturing photos like you're back in the USSR, in a way.
Ihagee was a camera and optics manufacturer based in Dresden, Germany that was founded by Dutchman Johan Steenbergen in 1912 as the Industrie- und Handelsgesellschaft or IHG, the acronym's pronunciation being Ihagee in German, hence the company's name.
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The company is best known for its Exata line of cameras, made between 1933 and 1976, a turbulent period during German history to say the least and which includes World War II and the partition of the country into East and West.
After the end of World War II, Dresden was in the Soviet zone of occupation and the company became an East German (DDR) concern after that. The ELBAFLEX name is the Exata line’s moniker in the Federal German Republic, or FDR.
The company was eventually merged in with Pentacon which subsumed its product lines.
Image via Ihagee ELBAFLEX Kickstarter.
The remake of the ELBAFLEX camera proposed by this Kickstarter will use a Nikon F-mount with a mechanical shutter at speeds of 1/2sec to 1/500sec + B as well as a single stroke wind-on crank.
It will come with modern amenities like a PC socket for flash memory devices as well as the ability to use old and modern lenses according to DP Review.
The new Ihagee was born of a partnership of German and Ukrainian engineers that are inspired by the spirit of the original though not beholden entirely to its limitations.
The name ELBAFLEX was coined by the Ihagee company to avoid lawsuits from its former owner who had formed a new company in West Germany and relaunched his camera line under the Exata name. Use of ELBAFLEX this time is to avoid a similar lawsuit.
If successful, the Kickstarter will begin shipping devices in August 2018 with a suggested price of $1500 for the camera body and will come in a variety of colors. Early backers of the project, however, can obtain this same device for $530.
Image via Ihagee ELBAFLEX Kickstarter.
Image via Ihagee ELBAFLEX Kickstarter.
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