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Re: The classy Contessa
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2023 11:50 am
by titrisol
A few from mine from a trip to St Louis
Rollei Retro 100 (APX100) developed in a D76 1:1 clone (Sprint)
The Gateway Arch
Old Courthouse and Dredd Scott
Driftwood on the MIssissippi shore
Re: The classy Contessa
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:38 pm
by Julio1fer
Nice series, I like that fence+tower.
Do you find these sharp enough? With that lens and film, would the plate in the Dredd Scott monument be readable? I must test mine with a similar subject.
Re: The classy Contessa
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2023 10:27 pm
by titrisol
I think pictures are sharp enough, I need to check them in the darkroom as these were just DSLR-scanned quickly.
The monument Plaque is not readable, you can make the letters up but they were too small
Re: The classy Contessa
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2023 7:28 pm
by Julio1fer
I think pictures are sharp enough, I need to check them in the darkroom as these were just DSLR-scanned quickly.
Understood! Let us know your conclusions!
Re: The classy Contessa
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2023 11:16 am
by titrisol
Julio, I put the negative in the enlarger and raised it up as high as it goes (17X)
The plaque was sharp and and I guess it could be read, but the font and angle in which I took the pic makes it difficult.
I could see the numbers at the bottom with effort and imagination
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... 35655).jpg
Re: The classy Contessa
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2023 7:00 pm
by Julio1fer
That is a fine performance for lens and film (and the photographer too).
Re: The classy Contessa
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2023 9:15 pm
by melek
The Contessa is one of the final great folding 35mm cameras from Zeiss Ikon, which didn't really make many folding 35mm cameras.
The only pre-war 35mm folder is the Super Nettel, right? And the only other folding 35mm cameras was the Ikonta/Contina, Contina II and Contessa.
At one time, I owned about a dozen of these. I gave away or sold all but two.
Re: The classy Contessa
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 6:37 am
by Brazile
Also the Balda Baldinette. I have an (currently non-working, although I suppose I ought to try to do something about that) otherwise nice-looking copy that I picked up at an antique mall in Denton, Texas for $35 (?) some years ago.
Robert
Re: The classy Contessa
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:12 pm
by titrisol
melek wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 9:15 pm
The Contessa is one of the final great folding 35mm cameras from Zeiss Ikon, which didn't really make many folding 35mm cameras.
The only pre-war 35mm folder is the Super Nettel, right? And the only other folding 35mm cameras was the Ikonta/Contina, Contina II and Contessa.
At one time, I owned about a dozen of these. I gave away or sold all but two.
Besides the Contessa I have the Ikonta 35/Contina that belonged to my wife's grandfather
I recently bought a Contina II with a "stuck shutter" so I have now the 3 Nerwin/postwar folders
Re: The classy Contessa
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:26 am
by PFMcFarland
titrisol wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:12 pm
melek wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 9:15 pm
The Contessa is one of the final great folding 35mm cameras from Zeiss Ikon, which didn't really make many folding 35mm cameras.
The only pre-war 35mm folder is the Super Nettel, right? And the only other folding 35mm cameras was the Ikonta/Contina, Contina II and Contessa.
At one time, I owned about a dozen of these. I gave away or sold all but two.
Besides the Contessa I have the Ikonta 35/Contina that belonged to my wife's grandfather
I recently bought a Cotina II with a "stuck shutter" so I have now the 3 Nerwin folders
A fine brace of cameras there, Pablo.
PF
