I slowly built this camera over a year or so after reading an artical about a conversion of the the Zeiss Ikonta 520/16 D to 6x12 shooting modern 120 film. It's a hand made one off camera that is fun to shoot, yields some great results and is a certainly a conversation starter, that is for sure! I was going to PlastiDip the body matte black but after seeing how cool it looked after I stripped it, I left it that way silver. Randy at HolgaMods even hit it with his buffer a bit. I'm assuming if it were black it would grab a bit less attention but I really like the silver look.
You get 6 well spaced shots per roll of film. The modern multicoated Linhof select Schneider 47mm f/5.6 just covers the 11cm film gate of the Ikonta. The camera does need to be shot between f/16 and f/22 to insure maximum sharpness and coverage. I usually shoot Provia in the mornings and evenings and really like its look.
The camera ships with 4 spindle adapter from HolgaMods Randy (if you don't know him or his work you should check him out, holgamods.com) the masked off 15mm Voightlander finder and permanently attached Arca mount and bubble levels. The only thing not included is the leather strap which I'm hanging on to it for a future project.
I'm asking $1099.00 (net) which is about what I spent on materials building the camera.
Check out my Flickr page for more pictures of the camera here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dirkfletcher/albums/72157664918061006
Here is a link to my blog if you want to see more info on how I built it or if you wanna built one yourself:
http://dirkfletcher.blogspot.com/2016/02/converting-classic-zeiss-folder-into.html
