Roy_H
23rd May 2009, 06:34 PM
A friend of mine gave me this during the week as a gift for helping him with his house move, he found it whilst clearing out some old stuff.
It's a Balda, of which there were an awful lot of different models, and this has no other identifying name. I think it's a Pontina, circa 1936-38 is my guess. It's 6x9 or 6x4.5, but unfortunately the film plane mask is missing (so it's 6x9 only).
Posting it here in case anyone more knowledgeable about this brand is in the group. I'm guessing it's a continental model, focussing scale is in metres, and it has the f-stop range 4.5-6.3-9-12.5-18-25, everything shifted up by 1/3 stop to keep the range in sync with the widest aperture I guess.
Shutter speeds are from 1 second to 1/150, plus B and T, quite respectable.
A bit of digging suggests that this was probably a 'middle-of-the-range' model. The 105mm Rodenstock Trinar it has is only a triplet, but possible better than the Meyer-Gorlitz Trioplan fitted to some models - and not as good as the Schneider Rarionar (top of the range and to all accounts a top-notch lens). (info from The Blue Book).
Anyway, first roll of HP5 has just gone through it - results awaited.
It's a Balda, of which there were an awful lot of different models, and this has no other identifying name. I think it's a Pontina, circa 1936-38 is my guess. It's 6x9 or 6x4.5, but unfortunately the film plane mask is missing (so it's 6x9 only).
Posting it here in case anyone more knowledgeable about this brand is in the group. I'm guessing it's a continental model, focussing scale is in metres, and it has the f-stop range 4.5-6.3-9-12.5-18-25, everything shifted up by 1/3 stop to keep the range in sync with the widest aperture I guess.
Shutter speeds are from 1 second to 1/150, plus B and T, quite respectable.
A bit of digging suggests that this was probably a 'middle-of-the-range' model. The 105mm Rodenstock Trinar it has is only a triplet, but possible better than the Meyer-Gorlitz Trioplan fitted to some models - and not as good as the Schneider Rarionar (top of the range and to all accounts a top-notch lens). (info from The Blue Book).
Anyway, first roll of HP5 has just gone through it - results awaited.