Adox Golf 6x6

Most basic Adox Golf with Adoxar 1:6,3 / 75mm lens and a Vario shutter 1/25-1/200. Manufactured in 1952-1958.

Contessa Nettel Cocarette

Cocarette made by Contessa Nettel,

Moskva 1

Camera is manufactured by KMZ, Krasnogorski Mekhanicheskii Zavod KMZ, - Mechanical Engineering Factory of Krasnogorsk.

Agfa Rekord II

One of the youngest generation of the folding cameras.

Contessa Nettel Piccolette

Piccolette was introduced five years before Cocarette and was apparently inspired by Kodak Vest Pocket cameras.

Moskva 4

The Agfa Billy

Production started in 1928 and continued until 1960. The most recent models were the latest traditional folding cameras made.

Erneman Bob II

The Ernemann factory got part of Zeiss Ikon group in 1926. I think, that this Bob II is old enough, that it has no connections to Zeiss.

Moskva 5

Agfa Billy Clack

Definitely an ArtDéco styled simple folding camera.

Franka Rolfix

Franka Rolfix, a simple dual format folding camera.

Reporter (Foinix Orito)

Agfa Billy Rekord 4,5

An older but not significantly minor exaple of Agfa 6x9 folders

Glunz SG Mod- 60

9 x 12cm plate camera. Lens: Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 1:4,5, F13,5 cm and the shutter is Compur 1 - 1/200.

Voigtländer Bessa I

The original Voigtländer Bessa is a classic folding medium format camera

Agfa Isolette

A basic landscape style Agfa 6x6cmm. A competitor or a "role model" to Adox Golf and Zeiss Nettar 517/16

IhageeUltrix

Numerous variety of Utrix cameras were made. In the "Ihagee" catalog 1931-32 there were 732 different lens/shutter/etc. combinations of Utrix available.

Voigtländer

Agfa Solinette

The "standard" Solinette, with a good-quality 50mm f/3.5 Apotar lens and Prontor SV shutter.

Nr-1 Pocket Kodak, Series II

Zeiss Ikon Nettar 515/16

Lens is Novar-Anastigmat 1:4,5 F= 75mm and the shutter Prontor -S , B, 1- 1/300

Balda Baldinette

A Folding 35mm camera manufactured by Balda Bunde Kamera-Werk in West-Germany around 1951

Kodak Nr-2 Folding Cartridge Hawkeye 2, Model B

Zeiss Nettar 515

Balda Baldini

A Folding 35mm camera manufactured by Balda Bunde Kamera-Werk in West-Germany around 1951

Kodak Junior

A basic 6x9 folding roll film camera, which uses 620 film format. The 620 film was introduced by Kodak in 1931 as an alternative to the 120.

Zeiss Cocarette

Numerous variants of of Cocarette was made the most luxurious of them has a Tessar lens.

Beier Beirax Junior

The Beirax 6x9 rolfilm camera was introduced in 1938 by Freitaler Kameraindustrie Beier & Co. Woldemar Beier, Freital, Germany

Kodak Retina Ia

Retina Ia was introduced in January 1951 as a new version of the Retina I

Zeiss Ercona

The somewhat rare Ercona , which dates about the mid 1950.

Belfoca

Belfoca 6x9 roll film camera. The lens is E. Ludwig Meritar 1:4,5/ 105mm lens. The shutter is Prontor S

Megor Type II

Strut- folding rollfilm camera for 3x4cm exposures made by Merkel in Tharand, Germany.

Zeca

A folding camera is a camera that can be folded to a compact and rugged package when not in use. The camera objective is attached to a pantograph -like mechanism, in which the lid usually is a component. The objective extends to give correct focus when unfolded. A cloth or leather bellows keeps the light out. When folded, the camera has an excellent physical size to film size ratio. This feature was very appealing when the only film formats available were large or medium format films.

Folding cameras were dominant from the beginning of the 20th century to WWII . The typical amateur camera of the 1930s was a folding 6 x 9 camera using either the 120 or 620 film size.

The use of folding cameras began to decline after WWII with the developement of the 35mm film format, which allowed the construction of small-sized cameras without use of a bellows.

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