Folding 6x6, narrowed, looking for insight

[Donald Qualls]

If you're potentially interested in a dual format 6x6 and 645, the Mamiya Six folder has the 6x4.5 mask leaves captive -- can't be lost without tearing stuff up. Already on the suggestion list, IIRC.

 

[Dustin McAmera]

Only a few models of the Six are dual-format: and some of them do it with red windows:

Mamiya Six family - Facts, notes and thoughts about vintage cameras and other trifle matters

Mamiya Six family model list The late 1940s and the 1950s saw most Japanese camera makers offering cookie-cutter 120 klapp cameras, most named Six or Semi in one way or another. Some makers survived a further decade or two, a few have reached the next century, while most just faded away. These...

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[Donald Qualls]

some of them do it with red windows

The one I have has amber windows. Hard to see the numbers on black-print-on-white backing paper without direct strong light in the window, though -- with the pressure plate and film plane focusing, it's a lot further from window to backing than with most red window cameras. Really, that's my only significant complaint with my Six.

 

[MFstooges]

OK, I know, but just in case- Fujica Super-6. Great lens with unit helical focusing, not front element focusing. Auto frame spacing. Simple but accurate coupled rangefinder.

I've had a co9uple of Baby Bessas and Bessa, 6x4.5 and 6x6, and found the Skopar to be an very good lens.

Do you know how does the coupled rangefinder work on Fujica Super 6? I know Mamiya moves the film plane.

 

[Dan Daniel]

Do you know how does the coupled rangefinder work on Fujica Super 6? I know Mamiya moves the film plane.

Simple rotating mirror under the top shroud driven by a lever from the helical on the lens standard. Focus itself is a single helical block- unit focusing? I am drawing a blank on the term- not a front element focusing.

 

[Donald Qualls]

unit focusing?

That's what I'm used to calling it when the entire lens moves.