Zeiss Ikon SL706
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The SL706 was the last camera designed and launched by Zeiss Ikon. It was a 35mm SLR based on the Icarex body, with a slightly different design and an open-aperture TTL meter reading. It used 42mm screw lenses, the same as the screw mount Icarex.
It was introduced in 1971 and one year later the company stopped camera production. The design and the toolings were transfered to the Rollei company, together with the Voigtländer brand name. Rollei already had a 35mm SLR that they had designed themselves, the SL35, but they nonetheless continued the production of the SL706 under the name Voigtländer VSL1. Later it would even replace their own SL35 with the SL35M that is a VSL1 under another name, so is another derivative of the SL706.
