Re: Zeiss Ikonta Shutter - Rapid and Synchro - both have flash?

On 2/27/2008 5:33 AM jjs spake thus:

> (Asking here because of the great expertise here. I also posted to the
MF 
> group.)
> 
> It was/is my understanding that the old Zeiss Super Ikonta 'flash'
shutter 
> was called a Synchro, and that the Rapid and other shutters had no flash

> terminal.
> 
> However, on that big auction site a fellow has one with a Rapid shutter
and 
> claims that it has a flash terminal. He says it is just next to the
shutter 
> cocking lever. Is this atypical or am I just flat wrong?
> 
> It's item #230226141947

I just uncased my Moskva-5, which is the Soviet copy of that camera, and 
sure enough, my Moment-24C shutter has a flash connection. Since the 
camera is pretty much a note-for-note copy of the Super Ikonta, I'd 
guess that the Zeiss shutter also had flash capability.

By the way, don't know if you're bidding on that camera, but it's one of 
the cams I lust after. Someday ... (I'd also like to have a Voigtlander 
Bessa (the 6x9 rangefinder model), and a Kodak Medalist, and ...).