IHAGEE & EXAKTA PRODUCTS AND HISTORY

Collectors of Exakta cameras and other Ihagee products and people interested in the history of this factory and its founder, Johan Steenbergen, will find practical and background information on this site.

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Med Dansk Afdeling

With Russian department

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The pictures show Johan Steenbergen in 1924 and in the 1960's

Main Index

• New since ...
• History of Ihagee
• Equipment (cameras, lenses, accessories, patents)
• Documents (magazines, folders, flyers) from large USA companies
• The Steenbergen Foundation and his biography
• The Multi-Lingual Ihagee Dictionary 5 languages
• Index to information from the Exakta Topica List
• The Virtual Ihagee Museum VIM
• Other useful sites
• Announcing the Ihagee/Exakta Convention May 2008 in Oxford, UK (English, German, French)
• Ihagee/Exakta collectors' clubs
• The owner of and contributors to this site
• Do you have problems, questions, additions or remarks?
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• DANSK AFDELING
• РУССКИЙ ОТДЕЛ
  

History of Ihagee

Equipment

Equipment: Manuals Gebrauchsanweisungen Modes d'emploi

The Virtual Ihagee Museum VIM

The Virtual Ihagee Museum (a proposal)
Comments on The Virtual Ihagee Museum

Ihagee/Exakta collectors' clubs

The site owner

My name is Hugo Ruys. I am a Dutchman, born in 1938. My portrait is on the right.
Since about 1975 I have collected all Ihagee products and all Exakta lenses except Japanese (unless they are in some way exceptional), all Ihagee equipment and most non-Ihagee equipment for Exakta.
More important, I collect information about the history of the Ihagee company (East and West) and its founder/owner Johan Steenbergen, and will make (part of) this available to you on this site.
I try to keep in contact with other collectors by being a member of  the English "Exakta Circle" and the French Exacta Ihagee Club de France (EICF), and by maintaining a list of Dutch Ihagee collectors (this list is not a club; most of them are members of the Dutch Society of Photographica Collectors "Fotografica").
I  also maintain contact with the family of Steenbergen, in particular with the board of the Steenbergen Stichting (=foundation), and represent the Ihagee Collectors of the World (you) when the Steenbergen Stipendia are handed out to the best photography student of the year.

Supporters of this site
Several people have supplied information (articles, scans of documents, pictures) to publish on this site.
I want to mention at least the following supporters of ihagee.org:
Hein Ehrhardt, president of the Steenbergen Foundation, author of  "My uncle Steenbergen"
Svend Erik Jeppesen, author of the Danish articles in the Danish Department
Frans de Gruijter, author of the article on the disappeared mercury batteries
The Exakta Ihagee Club de France, allowing me to publish older articles from the magazine l'Exacta
Evgeny Shovikov, provider of the material in the Russian Department
Mark Stuecheli and Jim Focht, providers of an enormous amount of scanned material, to be published soon
The participants in the Topica Exakta Discussion group

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How to find other useful sites

http://www.exaktacircle.org of the Exakta Circle
http://www.exakta-cf.org of the Ihagee Exakta Club de France
http://www.exakta.org run by Maurizio Frizziero
http://home.t-online.de/home/exaklaus/homepage.htm run by Klaus Rademaker
http://www.peterlanczak.de/ihagee.htm run by Peter Lanczak
http://www.exaktaphile.com run by Miles Upton
http://www.exaktapages.com run by Olaf Nattenberg
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Problems, questions, additions or remarks

Problems with opening some items

Some items (files) are in .pdf format, which means that you need the program Acrobat Reader (version 3.0 or higher) to read them.
If Acrobat Reader is installed on your machine, it should start automatically when you click on the item.
------- NB This works with Internet Explorer, but possibly not with Netscape. ------
If you don't have it, you can download it from www.adobe.com  
Acrobat Reader is absolutely free! (I had to pay for the program that generates .pdf files.)

Remarks or questions in general

If you have remarks or questions about Ihagee, its products and history, its founder Johan Steenbergen or about this site, please send me a message. E-mail is the fastest and cheapest, but there are other ways.
You may address me in Dutch, English or German. In writing and if you keep it simple, French, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish may work as well. I prefer to answer in English or Dutch; German is also possible.

H.D. Ruys (or Hugo Ruys)
Tesselschadelaan 20
1217 LH HILVERSUM
The Netherlands

tel +31 35 6244597
fax +31 35 6245810
e-mail: hugo.ruys AT ihagee.org   (for  AT  read @)

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Index to Information from the Topica Exakta List

NB This is information I collected/selected from discussions on the Topica Exakta List. The original input came from many persons. This means that the "I" in the texts is not me but can be many different persons, even under one heading.  

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