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There are many camera collectors who sell the Zeiss WERRA cameras from the v.m. East Germany is disgusting. Some of them hate it so much that they don't even want to include one in their collection. Whatever they think of it, I think it's beautifully stylized cameras that seem to be stripped of many superfluous things, but still have everything they need to make beautiful pictures. The WERRA 3 was the first type of Werra camera with the option to change lenses and equipped with a coupled rangefinder. It was produced from 1960 to 1964. The Zeiss Jena Tessar 2.8/50mm standard lens is interchangeable with a Zeiss Flektogon 2.8/35mm wide-angle lens or a Zeiss Cardinar 4/100mm telephoto lens. In the optical viewfinder, frames for these focal points and the measuring field for the rangefinder are clearly indicated. Nothing but good things about the lens and the design of the camera, but it must be said that the film transport, billed at the time as the "revolutionary ring transport" had many problems. It was special, but in fact too fragile to guarantee a long-term success of the camera. This applied not only to the Werra I, but also to the successors Werra II and III.
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