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[kb244]

Yes, that's my Nettar. I can never remember the number, though...

From left to right the cameras are:

Balda Belfoca 6x9
Voigtländer Bessa I 6x9
Zeiss Ikon Nettar 6x4.5
Welta Welti 35mm
Daiichi Zenobia (I think)
Voigtländer Perkeo

I suppose the Gandolfi Traditional is a classic too, even if still in production?
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And the little plate cameras: Dead Link Removed

Another one that would have been a sure classic if it weren't too new is the Carbon Infinity. And the Bessa-L too, I guess?

Well has to be a Nettar 515 because there are two Nettars , the 515A and 515B , the A is a 6x4.5 and the B is a 6x9 (taller beast), and it's not a Super Ikonta as it does not have the coupled rangefinder on the side. So... I figured it has to be a 515 though the fun part is trying to figure out the number of lens/shutter combinations they had for the 515 especially around wartime.

PS: I know what a Bessa L is, but I have no clue what a Carbon Infinity is.

 

[Ole]

... So... I figured it has to be a 515

It's a 521...

With a Tessar 75mm f:3.5, coated.

PS: I know what a Bessa L is, but I have no clue what a Carbon Infinity is.

The Carbon Infinity is this beast. Mine is no. 46 of about 60 in total...

 

[kb244]

It's a 521...

With a Tessar 75mm f:3.5, coated.

DAMMIT Foiled again...

The Carbon Infinity is this beast. Mine is no. 46 of about 60 in total...

... I think I am in love...

 

[ragc]

No offense to anyone, but I believe the culprit may be someone who had little luck with a digital camera, and just uploads whatever the smallest is off their camera straight to the web without croping, resizing, or general touchups. (however the odd dimensions rules that out)

Sorry, friends. I am the culprit. The photos were in an old abandoned website of mine and I linked to it, since I had long ago cleaned them from my drive. On my website they are resized to fill the screen and I had forgotten how big the files were. It bothers me too, but I don't think I can resize them now. My apologies.

To show I can resize photos, this one of my Asanuma King No. 1 I took tonight, after a thorough cleaning and building and installing a tripod adapter to take modern tripods.

 

[ragc]

...and now with a Fujinon WS f6.3 on a Seiko shutter...

 

[papagene]

Kodak 2D 5x7

Here is a lousy pic of my Kodak 2D 5x7. Picked it up off ebay and refinished it. It works great and I enjoy using it quite a lot.

gene

 

[Ian Grant]

Here's a couple of images of my main Agfa-Ansco, and its superb AM Optical Dagor lens:

and

A great buy from a US photography professor, its originally owner was a lecturer from the Clarence White School of Photography.

Ian

 

[ragc]

Ian: Have never seen an Agfa Ansco up close...the knob on the side of the front standard that is related to the semi-circular plate, is that for front tilt?

 

[ragc]

My Asahi Pentax Spotmatic (my main shooter since 1968)

Fort San Cristobal, San Juan, Puerto Rico (1970)

Hanckock Building and Water Tower, Chicago, Illinois (1973)

 

[Ian Grant]

Ian: Have never seen an Agfa Ansco up close...the knob on the side of the front standard that is related to the semi-circular plate, is that for front tilt?

Yes it is see this image:

The aluminum block on the other side was fitted by the second owner and is for a compendium lens hood. Unfortunately my second Agfa Ansco has no front movements other than a rising front.

Ian

 

[butterflydream]

Purma Special, Made in England ca. 1930
127 Format 4x4
f6.3 Anastigmat 56mm
1/15, 1/150, 1/450 drop shutter
Phenol resin body

 

[kb244]

Hrm my 'vintage' (lol now days anything before 80s is like vintage to folks) Canon P, with a not-antique lens (Bought new last week)

 

[papagene]

karl... your "vintage" Canon P looks to be in darn good condition! Purty camera,

gene

 

[luvcameras]

1880's 4x5 View Camera, American Optical Camera Company

Dan

www.antiquecameras.net

 

[Paul Goutiere]

Zeis Super Ikonta 531/2 Uncoated

Ikonta has been around the world. Still completely functional and certainly a nice negative.

 

[lensandleather]

This one is nicely hand-holdable, with good heft, and has charming effects at its f/4.5 widest aperture. The square negatives print with a nice chiaroscuro feeling. This camera forces me to abandon any remaining dignity and concentrate on basics (and mess with perceptions and conceptions simultaneously)!


Mycro Model 1


--
Don Day
(dipping my toes in after a long time away)

 

[seawolf66]

Kodak Premo Pony # 6

I have had this for awhile have just gtotten the lens clean and the shutter to work how close to accurate unknowen at this time Have a couple of film Holders coming will run some film thru it shortly: the camera was made around 1890 to 1900? thanks

 

[k_jupiter]

I wouldn't know where to start. Most of my cameras are pre-1970. From the graplex rb 3x4 and ZI-Trona 9x12 modified to 3x4 to the mid 50's Nettars and the early 50's Kalart Press going on through to the Yashica 635...

OK, I'll get the camera out and snap some "portraits". Most of these cameras still work and take great photos.

tim in san jose

 

[ragc]

Time to revive this old post to get more neat cameras on...I'll post a new "family" portrait on my LF cameras...

Left to right (oldest to newest):

1) Carl Zeiss Jena Universal Palmos 6x9 converted to 4x5 (1903)
2) 4x5 Gundlach Korona View - First Version (1910's?)
3) 5x7 Gundlach Korona View - Second Version (1930's?)
4) Half Plate Asanuma King 1, converted to dual format 4x5 and 5x7 (late 1930's)
5) 4x5 Anniversary Speed Graphic (1943)

The last three are my shooters.

 

[seawolf66]

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Here is my oldest and my newest in 4X5 fild cameras the kodak is a Pony Premo # 6 the other is a Linhof technika III built 1957 approx:

 

[Akki14]

Here's my old cameras

Polaroid 103 Land Camera and a Sonar OneStep SX-70 (have only used the SX-70 so far since I could bodge the polaroid 600 film from the local chemist into it)

two Ilford Sportis. This is what flea-bay does to you. You randomly see something, buy it, then find out it's the best thing ever and you have to buy another one to carry around. Sportis are a bit like an older (c.1959)Holga but with a decent glass lens (but still has some vignetting). example: http://www.stargazy.org/photos/kew-sporti2/

Brownie No. 2 Model E(left) and Brownie No. 2 Model F. Model E is a cardboard box (with a minor light leak problem - seems to become worse over time. Best blast through a roll all in one day ) Model F is a metal box with tripod mounts. Sadly one of its waist level viewfinder mirrors has come loose I don't think it's fixable since there's rivets on the front, not screws. Model F contact sheet: http://www.stargazy.org/photos/2007-03-10/tn/brownieF1.jpg.html

Finetta 88. Another random charity shop find. It's a quite good 35mm film camera, actually. You just have to learn to judge distance accurately to set the focus and have a handheld light meter on hand to know what to set the aperture(f/16 - f/2.8) and shutter speed(1/250 - 1/25)to. It technically has bulb mode but since I had to fix its shutter resetting problem, I found that bulb mode doesn't work. Something for me to poke at and fiddle with eventually. I think putting colour film through it made me really love it: http://www.stargazy.org/photos/finettalondon/

 

[k_jupiter]

two Ilford Sportis. This is what flea-bay does to you. You randomly see something, buy it, then find out it's the best thing ever and you have to buy another one to carry around. Sportis are a bit like an older (c.1959)Holga but with a decent glass lens (but still has some vignetting). example: http://www.stargazy.org/photos/kew-sporti2/


Brownie No. 2 Model E(left) and Brownie No. 2 Model F. Model E is a cardboard box (with a minor light leak problem - seems to become worse over time. Best blast through a roll all in one day ) Model F is a metal box with tripod mounts. Sadly one of its waist level viewfinder mirrors has come loose I don't think it's fixable since there's rivets on the front, not screws. Model F contact sheet: http://www.stargazy.org/photos/2007-03-10/tn/brownieF1.jpg.html


Finetta 88. Another random charity shop find. It's a quite good 35mm film camera, actually. You just have to learn to judge distance accurately to set the focus and have a handheld light meter on hand to know what to set the aperture(f/16 - f/2.8) and shutter speed(1/250 - 1/25)to. It technically has bulb mode but since I had to fix its shutter resetting problem, I found that bulb mode doesn't work. Something for me to poke at and fiddle with eventually. I think putting colour film through it made me really love it: http://www.stargazy.org/photos/finettalondon/

Well first off, nice photographs. The Finetta 88 shots look like old postcards. Very nice. The Sportis... that has the pop out metal tube doesn't it? I think I got one from an english EBayer who threw it and a couple other cheap cameras into a fiber lined sack and shipped them to Amurica. That didn't work out so well. I modified what was left of it to make a nice 2 1/4 pinhole camera. I thought the vignetting was a product of my changes. Now you tell me they all did it, even with glass. What a hoot. I eventually sent that camera to Donald Qualls down there in North Carolina where he made it even better by working on the symmetry of the pinhole.

The Brownie? Those images will give me nightmares tonight.

tim in san jose

 

[Akki14]

Well first off, nice photographs. The Finetta 88 shots look like old postcards. Very nice. The Sportis... that has the pop out metal tube doesn't it? I think I got one from an english EBayer who threw it and a couple other cheap cameras into a fiber lined sack and shipped them to Amurica. That didn't work out so well. I modified what was left of it to make a nice 2 1/4 pinhole camera. I thought the vignetting was a product of my changes. Now you tell me they all did it, even with glass. What a hoot. I eventually sent that camera to Donald Qualls down there in North Carolina where he made it even better by working on the symmetry of the pinhole.

The Brownie? Those images will give me nightmares tonight.

tim in san jose

Sportis look like a lot of other Dacora Kamerawerk cameras so, no this one doesn't have bellows or extends outwards. Dacora made a lot of cameras for various companies besides under their own label so there's a lot out there that looks similar to the Sporti (or the Ilford Sportsman etc). Dacora Digna is another popular vintage out there and that does have the extending tube.
What is interesting is that I get more or less vignetting depending on film. Fomapan 400 doesn't give as much vignetting as Ilford HP5 does. I have a theory that the older emulsions didn't show up the shortcomings of the camera so badly in its heyday.

Why are the Brownie images so scary to you? Brownies don't get enough credit for taking rather good photos for an 80+year old camera.

 

[Matus Kalisky]

Here is mine - not THAT old though ..

Rolleiflex 3.5T - acquired only recently - got the first testing film (Velvia 100) this weekend and I am not so sure that the main purpose (as originaly intended) will be BW. But it is a pure joy to use it. I hope to post some results in the near future.

 

[k_jupiter]

Why are the Brownie images so scary to you? Brownies don't get enough credit for taking rather good photos for an 80+year old camera.

Perhaps it's English weather that scares me so much. It's just that gray Fawltey Towers look to those photos.

Keep up the good work.

tim in san jose