What's a good aperture for a Zeiss Nettar Novar-Anastigmat 105mm 1:6.3?

[MattKing]

The 6x9 Nettar (at least the one I have) comes with an unusual left hand shutter button - the leather grip is also on the left side of the camera. An odd design, but one I was told years ago that was once common with German cameras from the1930s on. Can someone please verify this?

My Baby Bessa has a left hand shutter release button and a viewfinder perfect for left eye viewers. It also winds with the left thumb. To my (left handed) self, it is the most civilized camera I own.

 

[Down Under]

I finally wound up with a Watameter, but in all honesty, hardly ever use it. The other hazard with accessory rangefinders is some are marked in meters and some in feet, the same with cameras. So it's nice to get matching units."

Exactly this happened to me, I bought a Voigtlander rangefinder at a price so high, even years later I refuse to admit to its exact cost. It reads in meters and my Perkeo I in feet. Oi! Said RF now resides somewhere in one of my (too) many unused gear boxes. Someday someone will find it and (maybe) use it. I lives in hope...

...most commonly found RFs would be approximately "period correct"

Thank you for this. As one who learned how to do hyperfocal calculations as a young'un (not quite a toddler, but well, you know) and uses same with all my 'period' cameras (even Rolleiflexes and a Rolleicord), I am now formally branded as a quaint and amusing period-piece, alas! not unlike our best known export from Oz to the world, the dinosaurous Uncle Rupie M and his, here in Australia, widely despised print media crap products.