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Author Message   Krafty5260 Tinkerer Username: Krafty5260 Post Number: 24 Registered: 02-2008 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Friday, April 18, 2008 - 07:23 pm:    Many antique German and Japanese (well, Yashica anyway) have the suffix " -Mat" Zeiss Werra-Mat, Yashica-Mat, etc. I understand the Yashica Mat cameras have a crank handle film advance, instead of a twist knob, but is there more to "Mat" than that it just sounds really cool? I even searched Google for German definitions, but camera names seem more made up than car names and so far I'm not getting anywhere. I am however, thinking of naming my next dog Tessar-Mat. thank you, Michael