My Camera Hardware
Roll film Cameras
Flexaret Va Reflex (appr. 1958)
Taking lens Meopta Belar 80mm f3.5, Prontor SVS shutter 1 - 1/400
The Flexaret twin lens reflex cameras are a product of the Czechoslovakian company Meopta (manufacturers of enlarging equipment). Taking square 6×6 format photographs, as well as 35mm films.Balda Box (appr. 1932)
Box camera for roll films in 6x9cm square format. Double exposure.
Meniscus lens, two finders, shutter speed Z (appr. 1/30) and M, Aperture f=11
Produced by Balda Werk, Dresden. The company Balda was a german camera factory in Dresden (Saxonia) and a brand for excellent cameras. Founder Max Baldeweghad to leave Dresden after WWII and relocate the company in Bad Oeynhausen (Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany). This first version of the Balda Box was produced from 1932 to 1938. Tin camera covered with thin black paper for a leather surface imitation, sales price at that time 4.- Reichsmark.Agfa Clack (appr. 1955), convert to pinhole camera
For 120 film, creating large 6x9 negatives. Pinhole 0,31 mm instead of Meniscus lens, additional swing-in pinhole screen, Shutter Speed 1/35 sec, Focal lenghth 75mm, aperture f/242.
Yellow und orange filter. Double exposure.
Box camera in a metal body with bakelite core for 120 roll film taking 6x9cm format photographs.
