What's your latest new old camera ? (Part 2)

JensH · Sunday at 12:12 AM

ChrisArslain said:
I just scored this little guy for a very great deal from a fashion reseller. Slow speeds are too slow (who cares not using it with a tripod ever) but it's a beauty. I'll get it CLA'd at some point but it works great! Stoked!

Very nice! Gratulations, really. Looks great.
Some day I'll get one, too - as a fellow on my bicycle trips...

Best and may fun be with you
Jens

GregY · Sunday at 12:16 AM

darinwc said:
Beautiful The canon lens matches with it very well!

Thank you D. It's a gem of a little lens.

AnselMortensen · Sunday at 12:54 AM

A black Nikon F body.

lobitar · Sunday at 8:00 AM

chuckroast said:
I have this lovely Zeiss 6x9 folder with a Hugo Meyer rangefinder and an uncoated Zeiss Jena 10.5cm f/4.5 lens in an ancient Compur.

It only takes sheet film holders. The back does slide off which suggests a rollfilm holder may have once been available, I don't know.

Not sure of the exact model or vintage, but it does take nice pictures, at least in monochrome. The lens is tack sharp, but has that "vintage" lower contrast look. A few years ago, I had shutter serviced so it actually is in fine fighting form:

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Brings to mind a quote from Jason Schneider's writing about camera user/collecting in Modern Photography in the late 1960ties or early 1970ties: "Some wonderful person had (had) mounted a Meyer rangefinder" (on some 9x12 plate camera or other).
By the way abt pre-war Tessars: A good sample with clean glasses is not necessarily a 'lower contrast' lens stopped down, at least in my experience.

Chuck1 · Sunday at 1:47 PM

chuckroast said:
I have this lovely Zeiss 6x9 folder with a Hugo Meyer rangefinder and an uncoated Zeiss Jena 10.5cm f/4.5 lens in an ancient Compur.

It only takes sheet film holders. The back does slide off which suggests a rollfilm holder may have once been available, I don't know.

Not sure of the exact model or vintage, but it does take nice pictures, at least in monochrome. The lens is tack sharp, but has that "vintage" lower contrast look. A few years ago, I had shutter serviced so it actually is in fine fighting form:

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Rollex roll film holders might work,
Plaubel and rada flanges might be too thick.
There was a recent thread about roll backs for kodak reomar 18.
Also wondering about roll backs voigtlander avus 6x9 .
If anyone knows I'm wondering

dynachrome · Sunday at 3:43 PM

A Yashica 230AF is on its way to me. It is coming with the 35-70. I don't remember how many that will be. I recently added a 70-210. A 35-70, a 50, a 60, the extension tube and a T to Yashica AF adapter. I am in a Yashica AF mood.

dynachrome · 2025-08-04T16:18:47-0400

One more thing - I also got an FA-6 (grid type) focusing screen for the 230AF. While the standard screen is usable for close-up work, I think the grid screen will be better. From what I have seen, not all of the Yashica AF film SLRs have interchangeable focusing screens but I know that the 230AF does.

John Wiegerink · 2025-08-04T21:26:22-0400

dynachrome said:
One more thing - I also got an FA-6 (grid type) focusing screen for the 230AF. While the standard screen is usable for close-up work, I think the grid screen will be better. From what I have seen, not all of the Yashica AF film SLRs have interchangeable focusing screens but I know that the 230AF does.

I never owned one, but I talked a friend into buying a Yashica 230AF with the standard 50mm and the 70-210mm. He later got a 400mm I believe. He was a deer hunter/nature lover who wanted a camera to captured shots of whitetail deer and other critters. He had limited funds and the Yashica 230AF was the best bang for his buck (pun intended) at any of our local shops. The reason I talked him into the Yashica was one very good reason and that was it had "trap focus" capabilities. You focus on a certain spot or area and when an animal or person walked into that area or spot the camera shutter tripped. Perfect for wildlife. He even took the camera to Africa and got some really great photos and stayed out of danger doing it.

What's your latest new old camera ? (Part 2)

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