This little beauty came to me from an eBay auction in 2007, originally with worn-out bellows and a shutter that stuck wide open the very first time I used it. (The seller, however, was a right guy: he sent a full refund, letting me keep the camera.)
I quickly shipped it off to the "CLA Doctor", Jurgen Kreckel, who replaced the old black bellows for a new green one (sweet!) and ended up trading out the old Ansco consumer-grade lens for an Agfa Compur-Rapid that must have come from an Isolette or something of similar high-grade.
Anyway, I couldn't be more pleased with either the appearance or the performance - it shoots 12 6x6 images on 120 film, and folds to a slim hip-pocket size.
September 2009: The ten images of Cassandra were shot on Ilford Delta 3200 film and developed at 400 asa, using D-76 1:1 for 9.5 minutes. I guessed at this time, because Ilford had no directions for anything but stock D-76 solution. Looks like I did OK.
June 2011: Has it been nearly two years since I've used this camera? Probably, and in the interceding years I'd forgotten how terrific it is. The construction pics and the garbage truck were shot on 1996-vintage Plus-X Pan film as a test roll of a 10-pack thereof. Looks like good stuff to me!
January 2012: Three pics of my son on page 3 (entitled "Keane in the Back Yard") were shot on TMAX 100 and developed in Xtol 1:3, for 13.5 min. @ 20C. Not the best exposures, but I was playing around with the higher shutter speeds. I particularly like where I captured him jumping off the slide.
I quickly shipped it off to the "CLA Doctor", Jurgen Kreckel, who replaced the old black bellows for a new green one (sweet!) and ended up trading out the old Ansco consumer-grade lens for an Agfa Compur-Rapid that must have come from an Isolette or something of similar high-grade.
Anyway, I couldn't be more pleased with either the appearance or the performance - it shoots 12 6x6 images on 120 film, and folds to a slim hip-pocket size.
September 2009: The ten images of Cassandra were shot on Ilford Delta 3200 film and developed at 400 asa, using D-76 1:1 for 9.5 minutes. I guessed at this time, because Ilford had no directions for anything but stock D-76 solution. Looks like I did OK.
June 2011: Has it been nearly two years since I've used this camera? Probably, and in the interceding years I'd forgotten how terrific it is. The construction pics and the garbage truck were shot on 1996-vintage Plus-X Pan film as a test roll of a 10-pack thereof. Looks like good stuff to me!
January 2012: Three pics of my son on page 3 (entitled "Keane in the Back Yard") were shot on TMAX 100 and developed in Xtol 1:3, for 13.5 min. @ 20C. Not the best exposures, but I was playing around with the higher shutter speeds. I particularly like where I captured him jumping off the slide.
