Peter J. Alling wrote:
The IIc is a meter less IIIc the space taken by the meter is, well it's gone. Makes for a somewhat more compact body. The IIa if I remember
correctly has a fixed f2.0 lens in place of the interchangeable lenses on the IIc and IIIc.
To be pedantic about it, the IIc and IIIc and IIIC's had interchangeable front lens elements only. The entire lens didn't interchange.
In fact, it's known that some interchangeable lenses didn't perform all that well if you didn't get it from Kodak directly, for your specific range of serial numbers.
I surmise that happened because over the life of a lens series, or between otherwise seemingly identical model numbers, there were minor undocumented changes made which affected the precise alignment or lens stackup dimensions, or something like that.
So, you'd have to have a front element which was designed for that specific Stuttgart type, in order to have an optically acceptable performance...even tho' the model was the same...
keith whaley
