Bolo Kukus
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I'm posting this in Photography General Topics so it doesn't just disappear in the great universe of this site...
Newly acquired, for very little $$, a Voigtlander Bessa L, near-mint. I've not yet put a lens on it, but the meter works and, I hope, reads accurately. The camera looks as new.
No viewfinder, sure. I have a 1950s universal turret viewfinder at home. Also a few old (and I do mean old) Leica lenses. Not accessible at the present time, until next month when I return from my Asian wanderings to my hacienda.
In my dreams I want to use it with one of those legendary 15mm Heliars (yet to be acquired) on my travels later this year. I have 100+ rolls of film, mostly B&W and some ancient color negative, in my fridge at home. Not that I'm lacking in usable (and more useful than the Bessa) film cameras, but this small minimalist babe is after all engineered if not made in Germany (yes, it's a Cosina, I know), and it came my way dirt-cheap, so I nabbed it.
To say it again, the minimalism of it appeals to me. It's the sort of camera photographers used in the 30s-40s-50s - like, a Leica I with a meter.
Does anyone reading this still use one of these beaut-looking oldies? I would appreciate any advice you could give me about it.
Newly acquired, for very little $$, a Voigtlander Bessa L, near-mint. I've not yet put a lens on it, but the meter works and, I hope, reads accurately. The camera looks as new.
No viewfinder, sure. I have a 1950s universal turret viewfinder at home. Also a few old (and I do mean old) Leica lenses. Not accessible at the present time, until next month when I return from my Asian wanderings to my hacienda.
In my dreams I want to use it with one of those legendary 15mm Heliars (yet to be acquired) on my travels later this year. I have 100+ rolls of film, mostly B&W and some ancient color negative, in my fridge at home. Not that I'm lacking in usable (and more useful than the Bessa) film cameras, but this small minimalist babe is after all engineered if not made in Germany (yes, it's a Cosina, I know), and it came my way dirt-cheap, so I nabbed it.
To say it again, the minimalism of it appeals to me. It's the sort of camera photographers used in the 30s-40s-50s - like, a Leica I with a meter.
Does anyone reading this still use one of these beaut-looking oldies? I would appreciate any advice you could give me about it.
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