Vitomatic

Vitomatic IIb image by Rick Soloway (Image rights)

Voigtländer developed the Vitomatic series of viewfinder and rangefinder cameras for 35mm film with coupled meter as an alternate camera series to the Vito. All the Vitomatic were derived in 1957 from the Vito B, parallelly to the development of the Vito BL and BR and all have the bottom lock to open the back. The Vitomatic I are viewfinders and the Vitomatic II and III are rangefinders. The "a", "b" and "CS" have the meter instrument mirrored into the finder.

Models

1st generation (1958-1959)

• Vitomatic I
• Vitomatic II

2nd generation (1960-1963)

• Vitomatic Ia
• Vitomatic IIa (with Skopar 2.8/50 or Ultron 2/50)

3rd generation (1964-1966)

• Vitomatic Ib
• Vitomatic IIb
• Vitomatic IIIb (with Ultron 2/50)

4th generation, with CdS metering (1967-1969)

• Vitomatic I CS
• Vitomatic II CS
• Vitomatic III CS (with Ultron 2/50)

Links

In English:

• Voigtländer Vitomatic section at Retrography.com by Simon Simonsen, Denmark (direct link)
• Manual of Vitomatic II available on the Favorite Classics section of .kyphoto.com
• Vitomatic I/II/III at ukcamera [1]

In German

• Meine Voigtländer-Sammlung by Hans Lißberger

In French:

• Vitomatic Ia, Vitomatic IIa, Vitomatic IIb on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand