120 film RF Folders 120/220 Format Folding Rangefinders, including the various classic Zeiss Ikontas, Voigtlander Bessas, and their Ruskie copies. |
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09-13-2015
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Show off your 120 folder!
I've searched and searched, I've gone through this whole forum... there's no 'show your folding camera' thread.
Let's change this
I want to see your 120 folders!
My 'new' and probably last scale-focus folder. Finished it yesterday
Hot-rodded 1938' Ikonta 521/2. Sporting a very sharp (I think it beats my Rolleicord V's Xenar) post-war Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 105/3.5 (taken from a mid 1950s Ercona) in a Compur-Rapid shutter 
Beat up, patched hole in the bellows, but very rigid, smooth and parallel.
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One more in the same family. I think my best buy ever:

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Perkeo II
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Contessa 35
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I'm enjoying my Plaubel Makina III. Folded up it's very compact but rather heavy. But built with Leica-like quality!  Plaubel used to call it "The Rolls Royce of Photography" in their adverts.
With a single sheet film holder attached, you can see how compact it is. With a 120 Makina film holder it's quite a bit bigger and heavier. But you could put the back in one pocket and the camera in another and go places!
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Agfa /Ansco Super Speedex, 6x6 folder with re-done bellows. Folds up very neatly into an almost-pocketable size.

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One of my favourite folder cameras: the Moskva-5. Huge 6x9 negatives! And the lens on this camera is actually quite good. When I'm in the mood for burning through 120 film I reach for this camera. Only 8 exposures per roll!

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Scrambler's 120 folders by Steve Cramb, on Flickr
My 120 folders, including my Ensign/Welta Frankencamera. Why? The Welta is an f2.9 lens, the Ensignar was f4.5, plus a more versatile shutter on the Welta.
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Adox Sport by Ilya, on Flickr

1965 VW Volkwagen Beetle by Ilya, on Flickr
Adox Sport 6x9 folding camera
Steinheil Cassar f:4.5/105 mm
Fomapan 400
Developed in HC-110, dilution H
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All nice looking 120 folders above. I have a bunch, but below are some I have shown in the 120 RF Folders forum in the past:
Comparison between Welti (35mm), Welta Weltix, and Zeiss Ikon 6x9 (which give surprisingly sharp photos).
And three views of one of my Fuji Six cameras, which is a 6x6 and 645. As you can see, it has the 645 insert, and in the rear view, you can make out the lever on the door which switches between the 645 and 6x6 window.

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The 6x9 at a local farmer's market
And a local creek
Sorry for the poor scans, the prints are very nice.
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Mamiya 6 Automatic 2
And with it I did this and that in Prague

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My Mess Ikonta 6x6

and a photo from it (not a great scan, sorry)

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Quote:
Originally Posted by MV72

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Quote:
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Never knew you could shoot 120 rolls with those 
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WOW! The Bessa RF was very early, and always all black |
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WOW! The Bessa RF was very early, and always all black
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That is an incredible look for this cult like vintage folder. Fantastic!!!~
That had to be a difficult process, breaking the camera down to all it's metal components, chroming them and recovering the leatherette. Good Job.
Will you do a commission on one of those??? How Much?
That camera shoots excellent quality and set up right is one of the most accurate folder rangefinders I have ever used... Owned two.
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Quote:
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That is an incredible look for this cult like vintage folder. Fantastic!!!~
That had to be a difficult process, breaking the camera down to all it's metal components, chroming them and recovering the leatherette. Good Job.
Will you do a commission on one of those??? How Much?
That camera shoots excellent quality and set up right is one of the most accurate folder rangefinders I have ever used... Owned two.
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Thanks, but I didn't do this, it was how I bought the camera, just by 'chance' it happened to have the chrome trim. I suspect that it was done many decades ago, when the market value of the camera might have been seen as justifying the work.
I did wonder whether it might have been an 'exhibition special' produced by the Factory, as it was so well done.
If you look at the comments on the Flickr posting, you will see that Tervuren1 also said that they were never produced like that, and that people sometimes did chroming during restoration (I paraphrase).
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Just couldn't help myself ! But I should say, that when it worked it took really sharp pictures. I'd probably trade my Welta Weltur for another good working Iskra 1.
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Just couldn't help myself ! But I should say, that when it worked it took really sharp pictures. I'd probably trade my Welta Weltur for another good working Iskra 1.
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Looks like some cameras crashed head on on the highway. If of another brand I am sure the other camera is now a total wreck. Same body mass and strength of an Iskra is not found elsewhere.
My Iskra:
http://www.pigment-print.com/Fotogra...a/target0.html
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I think they call it a pocket Hasselblad. It does fit in my jeans back pocket and the IQ puts Hassy to shame
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Here is my Nettar. I liked it better than my Ikoflex Ib w/ the Tessar.
A couple of samples...

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Got carried away on the "folder" aspect 
They do fold don't they? Won't do it again!
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super ikonta
Super Ikonta 533/16. Zeiss IKOPHOT and Voigtlander  
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