6x6 folder with and without

I’m looking for a 6x6 folder with Imperial measurements on the lens, I.e feet

Without a rangefinder

Thank you

And I am looking for a car, 4 cylinder, front wheel drive....

Are you looking to be offered one to buy? Or suggested models? If the latter, please say more about what you are planning to use it for, etc. That's a pretty wide field that will turn into 2 ages of suggestions and then three pages of three people arguing about Skopars.

Dan Daniel said:

And I am looking for a car, 4 cylinder, front wheel drive....

Are you looking to be offered one to buy? Or suggested models? If the latter, please say more about what you are planning to use it for, etc. That's a pretty wide field that will turn into 2 ages of suggestions and then three pages of three people arguing about Skopars.

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Seems like the ones I find are metric.

I have a wonderful cold shoe rangefinder that I want to use

.. and out of that lot, what about this Fujica Six, if you can find one:



I only have a couple of cameras myself that do 2¼-square by scale focusing. Both of them are scaled in feet, but neither has a shoe for an RF.

Possibly an OEM camera from a US company like Ansco?

Haven't handled a huge range of folders so far, but my Dacora I is marked in feet rather than meters and has a coldshoe slot.

But a few possible flaws with it:

1. The door release is right in front of the very basic coldshoe, and might not be the easiest to work with your range finder if it extends forward any. [It is also only about 16mm front to back, whereas every other camera I have close to hand are 18-20mm]

2. My example of a Dacora I broke... Something is bent out of alignment so the body shutter button doesn't want to engage any longer. The springs and levers involved didn't look the most graceful when I got it, and kind of assumed someone tinkered with it to get it hobbling along again, but I can either have it fold or I can have it with a working shutter release, but it then jams up when trying to fold again. No clue if that is common old age damage or if mine was just specially damaged somewhere along the way.

3. Red window film advance.


But personally I wouldn't worry too much about what scale is currently marked on a scale focus camera. Careful application of something like whiteout tape or good masking tape, a metric to imperial conversion chart, and some care with a suitable fine tipped pen will make short work of any pesky metric markings if they're somewhere with enough space. Wouldn't be the first camera to get a modification to enable easier use by the end user.

Agreed, don't limit yourself based on the measurement. Choose the camera you like the best and then print a small sticker to go over the existing markings. I'm partial to Voigtlander for folders due to build quality and would go with a Perkeo or Bessa 66.

Voigtlander Perkeo II

dxqcanada said:

Possibly an OEM camera from a US company like Ansco?

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Yes. My Isolette III has its own RF, but also a shoe, and is in feet. The Agfa Apotar is a good triplet, though not ultra-fast. So something like an Agfa Ansco Speedex Special 4.5 might be what you want. Pacific Rim has this catalogue with it:

The OP has started a couple threads recently asking recommendations for 6x6 folders, so maybe we don't repeat the recommendations again.

If the main question is imperial vs metric scale on the focus dial, then almost all folders have both for different markets even the model is the same. If OP has decided the model, then he just need to look for the correct country variant which has imperial scale.

If you are scale focusing, you probably have the time to do the conversion in your head anyways .
And for everything other than close focus work, 1 yard = 1 meter will work quite well.

As already mentioned, many folder cameras have versions with imperial or metric focusing distances. They were sold in UK, Ireland and continental Europe, and some even exported to other continents, so both versions were needed.

I have a Voigtlander Isolette III with imperial scale, for example. No surprise that I bought it to a british fellow. Personally I don't mind about the scale, as long as rangefinder and lens match.

Thank you all. I purchased an Adox Golf 63.