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After doing a bit of research and working on the theory of nothing ventured, nothing gained I separated the shutter/ lens assembly and gently dismantled the lens (giving them a very good clean in the process), then using lighter fluid I worked to dissolve away the old grease on the aperture ring so now it works. Of course I had reset the focal distance of the camera - a fun adventure in itself, but so worth doing as I now have a working Selfix.
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Last week I bought a bunch of “broken” cameras mostly because one of them was an Ensign Selfix 16-20 in a case and I wanted the case to give to the friend who had lent me his Selfix, to say thank you. Well turns out my Selfix is in lovely condition, even has the ask for Ensign film sticker on the inner door, except for two issues - a seized aperture ring and the front tripod screw cover is missing.
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My #folder family is complete, for now…scored a Moskva 5 at the Chelsea flea market this weekend. And nothing says Soviet like knocking off a good Western design, right? (Note the similarities to the Zeiss Ikonta)
Another Zeiss Ikon Nettar (517/16) Film Camera
A while ago, I picked up a beautiful Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16 medium format folding camera for next to nothing from the Kamerastore website. It was cheap because it had, ‘flaws that will affect typical use.’ In this case, the ‘viewfinder has haze and fungus inside’. Otherwise, it was described as being in working condition. After a few weeks, I took it out with a roll of Lomochrome Turquoise, and the results were spectacular, but the hazy viewfinder was an issue and I really wanted to clean it out.
I looked around online and the hazy viewfinder seems to be a common problem with these vintage cameras, but quite an easy fix. However, I was still a little nervous about taking apart such a lovely camera and wanted something to pracise on first. And that’s where this Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16 comes in. Of course, it was in the ‘Not Passed’ category on the Kamerastore website, with ‘flaws that will affect typical use’. In this case, the 1/25s shutter speed overexposes by approximately 1 stop, and ‘there is some wear on the beams, but no light leaks were observed’. In addition, the ‘film advance knob only unwinds if its rotated backwards,’ and, of course, ‘there is blur in viewfinder’.
When the camera arrived, in a really nice leather case, it was in lovely condition apart from the aforementioned ‘blur’ in the viewfinder, which was in fact haze, as in my original version. Before I started cleaning the viewfinder, I thought it might be a good idea to check that the camera functioned properly. Although the 1/25s speed was reported as exposing incorrectly, the remaining speeds were within tolerance. As a reminder, the Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16 is a manual focus medium format folding camera that takes twelve 6x6cm images on a roll of 120 film. Introduced by Zeiss Ikon in 1951, it was manufactured until 1957. It comes with Novar Anastigmat 75mm f4.5 lens. There are three shutter speeds, of 1/25s, 1/75s and 1/200s.
I loaded it with a roll of Harman Red film in 120 format and took the Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16 to the Praia da Barra and around the neighbourhood in Oiä. To measure the exposure, I used the smartphone app Camera Meter, and made well sure to keep the shutter speed selection away from 1/25s. Fortunately, the days we went out were lovely and sunny, so that wasn’t much of an issue. The exposed film was dropped off at Forever Blue in Aveiro, and the negatives scanned at home with an Epson Perfection v750 Pro flat bed scanner and Epson Scan software.
The negatives came out fine, and I was really happy with how the camera performed. However, this was my first experiment with Harman Red in 120 format and I’m not certain that the exposures were quite correct (or maybe it’s not just the 1/25s speed that’s out of tolerance). Also, compared to the images from my original 517/16 with Lomochrome Turquoise, these results were very ‘so so’. Mind you, I’m wondering whether that’s more because of my subject selection and response of the redscaled film than the camera itself. I’ve posted the whole roll in an album (https://www.flickr.com/gp/147583812@N06/zs8864PE9m) on my Flickr if you want to see the rest of the images. I do love these little medium format folders, and now it’s time to try clean the viewfinder. ‘Stay tuned’, as they say (and wish me luck).
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Filling in the Gaps: The Zeiss Ikon Nettar 518/16, A Medium Format Folding Camera
Sometimes I pick up a camera that I’ve been really keen to get a hold of and then, when it arrives I’m already sidetracked with something else and the camera ends up ‘filed away’ for later use. The Bencini Koroll 2 medium format half-frame camera was one such example, and the Zeiss Ikon Nettar 518/16 is another. I have a fair number of cameras now, film and digital, from 110 to large format, but one type of camera that I’ve never really used much is a folder. Not one of those giant 1920s folders made by Kodak and others, I have some of them, but a medium format folding camera from the 1950s.
But I was still looking for a medium format folder, and while I was browsing the Kamerastore website I came across the perfect candidate, the Zeiss Ikon Nettar 518/16. As usual, it was classified under the ‘Not Passed’ category, which meant that it had, ‘flaws that will affect typical use.’ In this case, the ‘viewfinder has haze and fungus inside’. Otherwise, it was described as being in working condition.
The Nettar 518/16 is a 6x6cm medium format folding camera manufactured by Zeiss Ikon from 1949. The actual year of manufacture for Zeiss Ikon cameras is quite easy to determine from the serial number. My camera is stamped R93455, which dates it as being around 1961—62, much more recent than I had imagined, and a little confusing since from what I have read about this camera production was curtailed in the late 1950s.
From what I gather there were two versions of the Zeiss Ikon Nettar 518/16, a cheaper version with the Novar Anastigmat 75mm f6.3 lens, and a more expensive version with an f4.5 lens. Just for a change, mine is the f4.5 version. The central leaf shutter has speeds of 1/25s to 1/200s and certainly seems to be functioning properly. The shutter is cocked with a little lever on the lens, and activated with a button on the top of the camera. Once the shutter has been fired, the cocking lever pops into view in the viewfinder, indicating to the user that it needs cocking again. The aperture can be set between f4.5 and f22.
There have been a few locations around Vagueira that I’ve been really keen to visit, but we always end up speeding past these on our way home after a good lunch. This week, however, everyone is in agreement: we’re going to stop at these places so I can take some images. Excellent. For the film stock, I used Lomochrome Turquoise. With a usable range of ISO 100—400 I metered the exposures, with the Camera Meter app, at ISO 100. I’ve posted the whole roll in an album on my Flickr, if you want to see all of the images, but the Lomochrome Turquoise colour-shifted images came out wonderfully. I was a little concerned with the focussing, but the Nettar was pin-sharp and the exposures spot-on. When firing the shutter it neds to be cocked first, and when the shutter was fired, the sound is just a slight ‘click’.
In conclusion, I was really happy with the Zeiss Ikon Nettar, it’s certainly a quality camera, even 60-odd years after its release, and I’m just disappointed that it’s taken me so long to get around to using it. All in all, this test roll was a resounding success, and next time I’m definitely going to try some Harman Phoenix. The biggest issue with this camera is the dirty/fungus-y viewfinder, and it is pretty hazy. So the next thing I’m going to do is clean it out. This seems to be a common problem with these old folders, but the remedy seems to be is a quick fix. Now I’ve run a roll through it, I’ll see if I’m up to trying to clean this out.
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Folder Week: A Trip to Aveiro With The KW Patent Etui 9×12 Folding Camera
The week beginning 14 April was Folder Week, a Challenge that was new to me but was a great incentive to use some of the many folding cameras that I seem to be accumulating. According to Tom North, the brains behind Folder Week, ‘The rules are loose. If it folds it’s a folder.’ Well that seems straightforward enough. The plan was to use the KW Patent Etui from the 1920s with a roll of 120 Lomography ISO 100 colour film.
The Patent Etui is a thin form folding camera, compared to other more traditional ‘boxy’ folding cameras from the 1920s, and the only thing that has stopped me going out with this camera before is that I tend to use these folders with Instax Wide film mounted into plate film holders with a tripod, dark hood, the whole works. However, with the Patent Etui I also have a Rollex 5A roll film holder for 118 format film. These were manufactured by the Balda-Werk camera company of Dresden, Germany from about 1927 to 1946. It’s a 9×12 sized holder with a dark slide that fits securely to the back of the Patent Etui.
The Rollex film back was made for 118 film, which was wider than 120 film by about a couple of centimetres, so to use 120 film with this camera I really need some adapters. Fortunately, an Italian company called Camerhack make 120 adapters for a range of different formats and it was a no brainer to get my hands on a set of these.
The week beginning 14 April was forecast to be bad, and indeed it rained practically the whole week, and when it wasn’t raining it was dull and overcast. With faint optimism I loaded the 118 film back, though judging by the forecast I needn’t have bothered. The 120 roll with adapters fitted snugly into the film back and I wound the film on until I could see the ‘start’ arrow in the window. I closed the film back and wound the paper onwards for twelve half turns.
My original experiment with a paper roll suggested that this would bring me to the start of the film. Between exposures I wound the film five half turns, and I reckoned that I would get about seven frames out of a single roll of 120 film. In the event I got six exposures from the roll, but I’ll need to check the negatives to see how my experiment turned out.
The following Monday after Folder Week the sun came out so I headed to Aveiro. I took the KW Patent Etui loaded with Lomography ISO 100 film for Folder Week, and the Agfa Silette Rapid F loaded with expired (c.2002) Konica VX-100 colour film exposed at ISO 6. I redscaled the Rapid film. I even found a new piece of street art, so it was a morning well spent.
Using the Patent Etui with the film back was great fun. The only thing that I had to make sure was that the back was fitted firmly to the back with the little tab on the camera. I also put a piece of electrical tape over the red window, which was probably just as well since I think I lost most of the first image to a light leak before taking the camera out. Once the window was covered up, the rest of the images came out wonderfully.
The results were fabulous, and this time the Camera Meter app gave perfect results. I think the lab made one mistake with the scanning, mind. Although I used Lomography ISO 100 colour film, all the scans came back as monochrome, which I must admit — in my enjoyment of seeing such wonderful images — I missed at first look. That said, I really like how the black and white scans came out.
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Starting on 14 April is the next Folder Week, a Challenge that's new to me but is a great idea to get out some of the many folding cameras that I seem to be accumulating. The plan is to use the KW Patent Etui from the 1920s with the 118 roll film back, but worst case, the 1940s Agfa Karat could be a worthy substitute.
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Microsoft will change the naming of OneDrive folder links from March 2025: New links will contain the name of the source.
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#til, dass @AntennaPod auch Verzeichnisse als #podcast laden kann. (add local #folder). Supergut, kein gesuche mehr, wo man mit dem horchen aufgehört hatte :yayblob:
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