What is Your Favorite 6x6 Folder?

spendid Weltax

spendid Weltax

jotloob said:
Here are the two beauties .
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thats a very fine looking Weltax...an earlyish post war model too!! thats identical to the pre-war model but with the newer black face compur shutter. i have one only a few hundred away from that serial number as well. after this type it wasnt long before they went to the updated post war model
 
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literiter said:
The thing is heavy, tough and so far very, very reliable. .
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hehe they just didnt seem to take pride in thier products hey! if they did they would have had at least a 70 year warranty!...or why not a 100 year warranty, doesnt seem much to ask eh...dont ya just hate these companies that make things to last to an end date
 
Hi, I like my Balda Super Baldax with the Radionar 80-2.9.It takes great photos,and is fun to use.....................Robin
 
Having owned the Super Ikonta B, the Weltur and the Certo Six, all of them wonderful cameras, I sold them and kept only the Perkeo II. Superb lens, and it really fits in my pocket. When size doesn't matter, I take the Autocord or the Fuji GS645S.
So my vote goes for the Perkeo! (with Skopar)

Wallace
 
The Super Ikonta B is another gem. Well built, heavy, supurb optics, a case which is in itself collectible.
 
There are a lot of good choices here, but when you first get them, they are probably going to need a good bit of work. With that in mind, I'd like to nominate the Ansco Speedex Special R/Agfa Isolette III for sainthood. It's simple, reliable, has good optics (if you avoid the Agnars), is easy to work on (try installing new bellows on a Nettar, a Billy or an Ikonta sometime), and if you are bidding on one, you already know exactly what you are going to have to do to it to get it up and running.
 
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Agfa Super Isolette. My favorite camera and that includes Leicas, Canons, etc.
 
chippy said:
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I am guessing that the welta 6x6 you have oftherherd is the Weltax (what lens is it? also coated lens-post war or uncoated pre-war)
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I indeed have the Weltax. The lens is the 75mm. It says Germany V. Meritar 1:3.5 f=75mm E. Ludwig 748513 in a Protor-S shutter, from 1 to 250 and B. It appears as if it might be coated from the reflections I see. I give all that as with your knowledge of Weltas, it might give you information I could only guess at.

Everyone knows I love anything Fujica. But I just had the Weltax out to get that information and caressed it a little. It cooed back and momentarily I forgot the Fuji Six ... :D :D
 
jotloob said:
Does anyone in this forum use a FRANKA.SOLIDA ? ? ?
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Yes! Yes I Do!:)

Here's Franka!
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Click here for a few shots taken with it.

Not that great, but the only ones I have online
 
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Phil - that is a fine looking RF folder and the composition of the Ferris wheel in London with the Franka is spot-on.
 
chippy said:
thats a very fine looking Weltax...an earlyish post war model too!! thats identical to the pre-war model but with the newer black face compur shutter. i have one only a few hundred away from that serial number as well. after this type it wasnt long before they went to the updated post war model
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Andrew

That WELTA WELTAX was produced shortly after WW2 before WETLA was renamed to WELTA RHEINMATALL .
What I like most on that BEAUTY is the TESSAR lens and the release button . That button made laugh very much when I had that folder in my hands for the first time .
The viewer is very clear . When you shoot with that camera , people look at you i you would come from an other planet . I love that .

Jürgen
 
jotloob said:
Andrew

That WELTA WELTAX was produced shortly after WW2 before WETLA was renamed to WELTA RHEINMATALL .
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where did you hear that Jurgen? Welta was not renamed Rheinmetall !!

Rheinmetall from what i remember produced around a half dozen different cameras, at least on a couple of those cameras was on behalf of either Welta (i.e.Weltax) or Ihagee (Exa) to take up the slack when Welta or Ihagee could not keep up thier own production numbers (the Weltax is still considered a Welta camera tho). the remainder of Rheinmetall cameras were dorky little cheap bakerlite type camera, with curiously using Weltas' Perfekta model name (a model name they used for earlier cameras). quite likely i think that they may have been instigated by Welta for the low, low end consumer market..Welta was having some trouble (bugs) initialy with the first model Weltaflex camera (quality issues and training staff for a while) so i think that during this time they had Rheinmetall make the Weltax for them because they were falling behind in production.

Its my impression is that Rheinmetall were an general engineering firm of some sort (take on work from anywhere) that later changed their name to Sommerda...might be wrong but from memory i think they made farm equipment or something like that around the start/mid of the sixties..by this time (64) Welta was merged into VEB Pentacon from which the Welta Orix camera by Welta changed it name to the Penti ..no doubt used to compliment the Pentacon name

jotloob said:
What I like most on that BEAUTY is the TESSAR lens and the release button . That button made laugh very much when I had that folder in my hands for the first time .
The viewer is very clear . When you shoot with that camera , people look at you i you would come from an other planet . I love that .

Jürgen
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hehe yeah they are fun and do draw looks....enjoy
 
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1st equal place goes to my Iskra & Iskra II.

A close second is the Certo Six, only because the Iskra has a much better viewfinder. Great lenses on all of them, the Certo being quicker and having a convenient 40.5mm filter thread.
 
My first folder was a Franka Solida, non rangefinder. I have had many since. Another one I like is the Hapo 66e with the 75mm Enna Haponar 3.5 ..... AND the sleeper of the hour is the Zeiss Nettar with the Novar lens.
 
chippy said:
where did you hear that Jurgen? Welta was not renamed Rheinmetall !!

Rheinmetall from what i remember produced around a half dozen different cameras, at least on a couple of those cameras was on behalf of either Welta (i.e.Weltax) or Ihagee (Exa) to take up the slack when Welta or Ihagee could not keep up thier own production numbers (the Weltax is still considered a Welta camera tho). the remainder of Rheinmetall cameras were dorky little cheap bakerlite type camera, with curiously using Weltas' Perfekta model name (a model name they used for earlier cameras). quite likely i think that they may have been instigated by Welta for the low, low end consumer market..Welta was having some trouble (bugs) initialy with the first model Weltaflex camera (quality issues and training staff for a while) so i think that during this time they had Rheinmetall make the Weltax for them because they were falling behind in production.

Its my impression is that Rheinmetall were an general engineering firm of some sort (take on work from anywhere) that later changed their name to Sommerda...might be wrong but from memory i think they made farm equipment or something like that around the start/mid of the sixties..by this time (64) Welta was merged into VEB Pentacon from which the Welta Orix camera by Welta changed it name to the Penti ..no doubt used to compliment the Pentacon name



hehe yeah they are fun and do draw looks....enjoy
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The WELTA WELTAX was produced after WW2 for a short time under the brand RHEINMETALL .
The shutter was then called TEMPOR and the nice little release button was of a slightly different design . But still very nice .
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