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If you’re looking for a good 6x6 folder for the next #FolderWeek, my local shop, National Camera, has just listed a few EXC and VG condition Voigtlander Perkeo 1 cameras. Here’s a link to one of them. The price is fair. https://www.natcam.com/products/voigtlander-perkeo-i-medium-format-film-folding-camera-with-75mm-f4-5-lens-2/

beach & bay.

Gear:
• Beier Beirax II (Germany, ~1953)
• E. Ludvig. Meritar 105 mm f/4.5
• Lomography 800

#analogphotography #art #beach #believeinfilm #corfu #folderweek #fotografiaanalogowa #greece #landscape #landscapephotography #lomography #mediumformat #minimalism #mountains #photography #sea #sun #sunrise #sunset

A bay with a huge beach, cliffs, and turquoise water.

My wife 💛

Gear:
• Beier Beirax II (Germany, ~1953)
• E. Ludvig. Meritar 105 mm f/4.5
• Lomography 800

#analogphotography #art #believeinfilm #corfu #folderweek #fotografiaanalogowa #greece #lightleak #lomography #mediumformat #portrait #portraitphotography #sunset

A woman wearing a hat and a brown top is sitting on a rock. She has blonde hair. In the background, you can see a bay with cliffs and the sea.

My wife, me, and our backstage ☺️

Gear:
• Beier Beirax II (Germany, ~1953)
• E. Ludvig. Meritar 105 mm f/4.5
• Lomography 800

#analogphotography #art #believeinfilm #corfu #folderweek #fotografiaanalogowa #greece #lomography #mediumformat #portrait #portraitphotography #sunset

A man in dark, short clothing takes a photo of a woman wearing a hat and a brown blouse sitting on a rock. She has blond hair. In the background, you can see a bay with cliffs and the sea.

I had a nice discussion last week (?) with some film folks about how we're looking for a more positive spirit event like #FolderWeek to get us to shoot and share more work with vintage film cameras and we settled on TLRs (Twin Lens Reflex) cameras. So here's the inaugural #TLRTuesday post (hashtag is still under work-shopping)?

Also an homage to #TrainTuesday, I sadly don't have enough regular train access to keep going, but maybe someday.

📷 #Rolleiflex (Standard 1935)
🎞️ #KodakGold200
🧪 #BelliniC41
🖥️ #SonyA7ii + #Darktable

#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #6x6 #MediumFormat #TLR #SanFrancisco

A sunny color photo of two old-timey street cars facing each other seperated by an intersection surrounded by palm tree lined brick laid streets. The closer tram to the left is partially visible is a very vivid yellow top and ornage bottom and the farther tram is a white top with a blue bottom, both looking very vintage and dapper. Shot with a Rolleiflex Standard1935 and ZeissTessar75f3.5 lens, on KodakGold200, and developed with BelliniC41 by Shom Bandopadhaya. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).

#photography #filmphotography #travel #folderweek

Crossing the new Harbor Bridge, Corpus Christi, TX. October 25, 2025, around 2pm. Really folder week + 1, but I loaded the film during folder week...

Semi Leotax R 6x4.5 folding camera (1953), 75mm f/3.5 | Portra 160 | 1/50 at f/16 | dev/scan The Darkroom Lab | traditional treatment in LR/PS.

I was riding shotgun; this is cropped to 4x5 to remove the dashboard.

This shot reminds me how much I like the motion blur with leaf shutters. With a focal plane shutter at 1/50 sec, there would be artifacts.

#silentSunday with my 6×9 film shot from a camera built in 1953

Gear:
• Beier Beirax II (Germany, ~1953)
• E. Ludvig. Meritar 105 mm f/4.5
• Kodak Professional Gold 200 120

#6x9 #6x9film #analogphotography #art #believeinfilm #boat #boats #corfu #folderweek #fotografiaanalogowa #greece #island #landscape #landscapephotography #kodak #kodakgold #mediumformat #minimalism #mountains #photography #sea #sunset

A photo of a boat at sea. Flowers are visible in the foreground. The sky is cloudless. An island can be seen in the distance.

You could scare cats and little children with this...

Is this #voigtländer Inos II (and its close relative Bessa E) the only self-erecting lens-on-rails folding camera model there is? I'd like to know whether there are any comparable designs.

#shittycamerachallenge #folderweek #believeinfilm

Think I managed to reset Inos II infinity focus; only a test film can tell how close I really got.
Needed just to bend the shutter bracket a bit more, and remove a burr that prevented the base plate opening fully (was missing just 1-2°s from the full 90°)

#shittycamerachallenge #folderweek

As I feared, the infinty focus of the Inos II is way off the mark. The infinity focus point is now at about the 8m mark on the distance scale. I estimated that I'd need to move the shutter some ~1,5mm further away from the film plane...

#folderweek #shittycamerachallenge #voigtländer

Hurrah for #folderweek, I got an article out of it!
https://www.35mmc.com/04/12/2025/horseman-980-a-seasonal-essay/

This feels weird...

'33 Voigtländer Inos II

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #folderweek #shittycamerachallenge #voigtländer

@tomnorthfilm: Thanks for the idea of #FolderWeek.

The camera is a Semi Leotax R 6x4.5 folder, from around 1953. (A few more details are in the alt text from the original post.)

I didn't mention in the alt text that there's a problem with the rollers (I think) -- horizontal dark streaks on the film due to some kind of mechanical abrasion in the emulsion path. Photoshop non-AI retouch does OK with that, but it's tedious. I would use the camera a lot more were it not for that problem.

#phogotraphy #filmphotography #family #folderweek

My sister and one of her granddaughters, during the weekend celebration of her 60th wedding anniversary. Corpus Christi, TX, October 26, 2025, around 11am.

Semi Leotax R 6x4.5 folder | Portra 160 | 1/25 at f/3.5 | dev/scan The Darkroom Lab | traditional treatment in LR/PS.

I don't remember whether this roll was expired, but there was a definite green cast on the entire roll that needed to be corrected. This shot was underexposed -- I wasn't going to try 1/10, and f/3.5 is all the lens would give me. I cropped for composition.

The biggest treatment: focus was not sharp on my sister's face. Not surprising with f/3.5 and zone focus! So I applied enough unsharp mask, selectively, in Photoshop to give some definition to the stripes and to her eyes; it made things acceptable for me (and I liked the expressions). No need for AI to patch thing up.

#photography #filmphotography #travel #folderweek

Verdi Rd near I-37, Pleasanton, TX. October 25, 2024 around 12:15pm.

SEMI Leotax-R Folding Camera 6x45 | Portra 160 | 1/100 at f/8 | dev/scan The Darkroom Lab | traditional treatment in LR/PS

I was on the road between San Antonio and Corpus Christi. This was taken during Folder Week, then the roll sat on my desk for a month or so while I was distracted with other things.

📷️ Mamiya 6 K
🎞️ Harman RED 125

#SilentSunday #FilmPhotography #FolderWeek #redscale

Redscaled photograph of a sunrise looking somewhat apocalyptic. Red washes over the entire image.

I've been on lookout for older #Voigtländer folders for well over a year. Now, within a few weeks, two opportunities presented itself: good condition, reasonable price.

What should a man do? Buy them both!

Behold: '31 Voigtländer Inos I and '33 Voigtländer Inos II

#believeinfilm #folderweek

- On the left, a 1931 Voigtländer Inos I 6x9/6x4.5 folder camera, Skopar f/4.5 lens on a Compur shutter, shutter on rails, wireframe & brilliant finders.
- On the right, a 1933 Voigtländer Inos II 6x9/6x4.5 folder camera, Skopar f/4.5 lens with a genuine Voigtländer yellow filter on a Compur shutter, self-erecting rails system with remote focusing.

Shhh 🤫 Don't tell my wife. I might have bought a new camera. Actually, not that new; about 110 years old. It has a lens by H. Duploich Lens, Paris, France - a rectilinear lens,

That's a photo of the camera folded. I'm saying no more until I have seen it myself. It could be an interesting camera for #FolderWeek

A vintage folding camera in a wooden box

Remember the Classic Car photos I took for #FolderWeek? I have now done a blog post, and you can see all the photos in one place. https://grainyphotos.com/events/martos-classic-car-show-2025/

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #filmisnotdead #blackandwhite