So your problem is that few of us on the Forums (here and APUG) will actually own an ICA camera, many of us will own pre WWII Zeiss Ikons because production increased dramatically in the 1930's. That's a rough average of 50,000 Zeiss lenses a year in that period and with many companies using their lenses so I guess that we can think in terms of 10,000 ICA camera a year probably less as they were smaller than Voigtlander. If we assume post WW! to the formation of Zeiss Ikon that Compur made approx 350,000 shutters, Zeiss 405,000 lenses, Voigtlander 100,000 (according to the serial numbers) we see things in a different perspective. Look at the number of lenses Voightlander made each year between the wars it's low until after the Nazi's came into power and the German economy grew. The German photographic industry was struggling after WWI with far too many companies competing for what little business there was. I think part of the problem is the number of cameras actually manufactured by the various German companies before WWII and then more importantly before the merger to form Zeiss Ikon, it's not high.Īs a number of companies used Zeiss lenses and we know from the Serial numbers roughly how many lenses were made each year it seems quite obvious the companies weren't making huge numbers of cameras, this is also corroborated by the number of shutters sold by Compur and many were exported.
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