Vitomatic

Vitomatic IIa 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, in parallel 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 reflected 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 Camera Collection by Pierre Dalger
• Vitomatic manuals at Mike Butkus Orphan Cameras
• Vitomatic I/II/III at UK Camera

In German

• Meine Voigtländer-Sammlung by Hans Lißberger
• Vitomatic by Udo Afalter
• Kamerasammlung von Manfred Forscht by Manfred Forscht

In French:

• Voigtländer Collection d'appareils photographiques by Pierre Dalger
• Vitomatic Ia, Vitomatic IIa, Vitomatic IIb on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand