Camera Talk

All of the cameras that I restored in the past week. Most of these I've owned for more than a decade. Top row, from left: Zeiss Ikon Ikonta 521/2 with a Zeiss-Opton 106mm Tessar, Kodak Retina IIIc, Kodak Pupille with f/2.0 4.5cm Xenon, Kodak Signet 40, Zeiss Ikon Baby Box Tengor with a focusing Novar, Kodak Retina IIS.
Bottom row, from left: Voigtlander Vitessa (early model) with f/2.0 Ultron, Voigtlander Vitessa (later model) with f/2.0 Ultron, Zeiss Ikon Contax IIIa with f/1.5 Sonnar (this camera had never been used), Kodak Retina II with f/2.0 47mm Kodak Ektar.

It's sort of odd that the Ikonta has a 106mm lens.

In the basement, I still have another folding Vitessa plus a non-folding Vitessa with three lenses. I also have a Kodak Signet 80 with three lenses. Next to me, I have a postwar Super Ikonta 6x9 with a coated Zeiss-Opton 105mm lens.

wow, that's what I call a good week!

That Contax needs to be used then
Love that Pupile with Xenon, what a nice camera!

Here's what I worked on this week. Apparently, I took a liking to the postwar Box-Tengor. The others include the 58mm Biotar, which is part of another post, an Agfa Super Silette-L with a Solinar, an early model Contaflex and an Agfa Super Silette with an f/2.0 Solagon.Kodak Retina IIa and Kodak Signet 80. Of everything pictured, I am keeping the Signet 80, one Box Tengor - the one on the far right that is missing its carrying handle, and the Biotar.

Are you selling? I wouldn’t mind that Super Silette with Solagon

alexvaras wrote: ↑

Sun May 16, 2021 1:33 pm

Are you selling? I wouldn’t mind that Super Silette with Solagon

$35 + shipping sound OK to you? Feel free to make a counteroffer.

Great, sending pm

Busy, busy, busy! That's a lot of camera work!

PF