Share what you shot with a pocket folding cameras 6x6,6x7 and 6x9!

[Daire Quinlan]

I went down this rabbit hole
Started off with an Isola



Then picked up a Nettar



And am now 2 Mamiya 6's in



I gotta say, the Mamiya 6, when it goes right, is a great machine. First one I got was plagued with bellows issues, by the end of it the thing could barely close with all the patches I'd glued onto it. Got a second one and it would never, despite what I did, focus properly. Ripped off the focus mechanism in its entirety from the first and put it into the second and all is good once more.

 

[Robert.M]

Ensign Selfix 820, Ross Xpres 3.8/105, Ilford Delta 100

 

[Robert.M]

Welta Perle 645, Tessar 4.5/75, Ilford Delta 100

 

[Punker]

These just came out of my 1915 Kodak Junior 1a this weekend. Not perfect but not bad for a 103 year-old camera.

 

[Hatchetman]

Kodak Tourist

FOG by Rob, on Flickr

 

[DWThomas]

I was thinking more about this thread. I hope the OP finds these samples as inspiring as I do. It has occurred to me that a lot of my early years in my family, and likely many others, were documented with simple box cameras, meniscus lenses, etc. These folders with their triplets and Tessar-type lenses and adjustable focus (and exposure) are actually fairly high end devices by comparison. And especially with very youthful (and maybe also elderly!) picture takers, flinching whilst pushing the shutter release may have prevented even the simple cameras from showing their best. I probably have since burned it, but my mother proudly kept a circa 1950 6x9 contact from my Brownie Target Six-20 that had my finger partially obscuring the lens in an otherwise fairly decent shot of an old one room schoolhouse in Vermont. (Her secret weapon to teach me not to get too smug I guess. )

 

[StrangestStranger]

Shot with a Moskva-2
Tri-X EI 250
HC-110 dilution H
Printed on Ilford Multigrade RC developed in Ilford PQ

Link is here. Image is in next post.
https://flic.kr/p/Ez57SH

 

[StrangestStranger]

FileNumber-20160130-0-049 by Scott Hellenbach, on Flickr

 

[TheTrailTog]

Some great stuff in this thread! Here's another from the Certo Six from a roll I developed last night...

 

[Robert.M]

Balda Baldax,645 folder, Tessar 4.5/75
Ilford Delta 100

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I'm amazed at many of the shots in this thread. Stunning. Here's my best by far - many others didn't turn out so well. Zeiss Netar.

No Miracles Here by Rob MacKillop, on Flickr

 

[ozphoto]

Shot on my Kodak Junior 620, which saw service in WW2 with an Australian soldier stationed in the Middle East.
The film was respooled, however, it didn't wind on correctly in camera (used a worn 620 spool) hence the fogging.

This was the first roll I put through it - blown away by the lens and the tried and true "sunny 16" method worked an absolute treat.

 

[macfred]

I'm amazed at many of the shots in this thread. Stunning. Here's my best by far - many others didn't turn out so well. Zeiss Netar.

No Miracles Here by Rob MacKillop, on Flickr

Great one !!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks, macfred.

 

[Robert.M]

Ensign Selfix 220,645 or 6x6 folder, Ensar anastigmat 4.5/75

 

[albireo]

Great pictures everyone. I love my Agfa Isolette I and lately I've been using it more than my Yashicamat 124G. I feared it had reached the end of its life a few weeks ago when I discovered several pinholes in the bellows. Luckily I sourced and managed to install new bellows, and it seems everything is back to normal now.

A couple of shots, 1st on Ektar 100, second on (defective) Fomapan 200. Both scanned with my Epson V550.

Volga ГАЗ-24. Berlin 2018 by G.Gallone, on Flickr

Coe Fen, looking towards DoubleTree. Cambridge 2018 by G.Gallone, on Flickr

 

[macfred]

Great pictures everyone. I love my Agfa Isolette I ...

Volga ГАЗ-24. Berlin 2018 by G.Gallone, on Flickr

Love it !!!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Coe Fen, looking towards DoubleTree. Cambridge 2018 by G.Gallone, on Flickr

Stunning!

 

[bunip]

Agfa Super Isolette, Solinar 75 3,5 coated lens, the same that you can find on some Isolette III or Isolette II; great lens, great camera with coupled rangefinder. My favourite camera for the beach, no electronics and no damage from few water drops...

 

[Rob MacKillop]

More superb shots from an Isolette. I must learn more about these cameras.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

When I search for the Isolette on eBay they all appear as Silette...same thing?

 

[macfred]

When I search for the Isolette on eBay they all appear as Silette...same thing?

No, Rob - Agfa made an enormous number of different cameras from about 1953 to early 1970's with the label 'Silette' on them - those were 35mm.
http://www.rolandandcaroline.co.uk/silette.html

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Some resources about the AGFA Isolette series :
http://www.rolandandcaroline.co.uk/agfa_shelf.html
http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Isolette

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks, macfred. A complicated history, with Isolette V coming before Isolette I...

 

[halfaman]

The Solinar and the russian cousin Industar-58 of the Iskra are two suberb examples of Tessar desings, can't go wrong with either of them.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks. I'm not looking to buy, as I've just bought a Bronica SQ-Ai, but in the future it might be an idea to have something pocketable, especially if it has a quality lens.