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Question for Super Ikonta tinkerers: the ring around the front elements (that couples with the tab connected to the RF) has 3 tiny little screws. I was taking apart a beater Super Ikonta that arrived today and I lost all three of them (!). Does anyone know where I could find more? Do the cheaper Ikontas use the same ones?

I e-mailed Jurgen at Certo6 to see if he had any spares he could sell me, but he says he only has a few and needs to keep them around for much the same reason.
 
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Shot with newly acquired Balda Baldix on BW400cn.

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Nettar 518/16

La Réunion island. Colour on dodos added in CS2.
This Novar lens is sharp and pleasant. I have the same on a prewar 515 and a 515/16 with similar good results.

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"Of the Herd" and "Ethics Gradient", thanks for the feedback. The negative was slightly fuzzy, and this image has a little PS-sharpening. (Scale-focused and shot waist level at 1/25th.)

My 9x12cm camera has an uncoated 13.5cm Zeiss Tessar f4.5 lens, in a rim-set Compur shutter. It is only marked "BeeBee" on the body. Google says it was probably made in the '30s by Certo for US importer Burleigh Brooks.

Its bellows are light-tight, but the felt light seal on the back leaks. Many shots in bright light usually have light leaks on the film. (One of these years I'm gonna replace the felt strip.)

OftheHerd, this picture was taken in 2003, and I'm certain this guy was genuinely homeless, as he was quite dirty. About what year was that TV show? I'd like to think some kind TV producer hired this guy off the streets of Santa Monica. FWIW, his facial features are very similar to the native coastal Indians of Southen California.
 
Here's another from my Certo/BeeBee 9x12cm folder, taken in a coffeehouse in my hometown of Santa Barbara, Calif. The camera was sitting on the edge of the table for either a 1/2 or 1 second exposure, as I recall.

Film was either Agfa APX 100 or Efke PL100; I fergit the notch codes.. I used a glass plate holder with a removable film sheath, hence the slightly odd edges. (My previous pic was done with the nifty Kodak/Recomar holders which have a spring-loaded backing that will accept either glass plates or film without a sheath.)

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10252170&size=lg
 
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What beautiful tones in that photo. Those old 9x12 cameras are great. In essence, a 4x5 negative, but much lighter camera to carry. Some of them have all the front movements of a 4x5, if not as much as a 4x5. Regardless, they can give very nice photos.
 
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Here's another from my Certo/BeeBee 9x12cm folder, taken in a coffeehouse in my hometown of Santa Barbara, Calif. The camera was sitting on the edge of the table for either a 1/2 or 1 second exposure, as I recall.

Film was either Agfa APX 100 or Efke PL100; I fergit the notch codes.. I used a glass plate holder with a removable film sheath, hence the slightly odd edges. (My previous pic was done with the nifty Kodak/Recomar holders which have a spring-loaded backing that will accept either glass plates or film without a sheath.)
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10252170&size=lg
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I don't recall when that episode came out. The homeless man in question was afraid of of another homeless man and ended up confined in a hospital, totally out of touch with reality. I think it was an older one as I seem to recall it had the original cast of detectives.
 
Taken with a cir. 1949 Ikonta A /w Opton Tessar, Acros in D-76.
 

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