Tag Archives: folding camera

A postcard camera

Posted on February 11, 2012 by ambientimages

I TOOK my Zeiss Ikon 6×4.5 for an outing the other day, just to see what it could do. The light was flat and a bit dim, which isn’t ideal, and either my exposure or the processing was a bit … Continue reading →

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The Ensign Selfix 220

Posted on January 27, 2012 by ambientimages

BRITAIN’s camera manufacturing industry has been all but dead for almost half a century, yet in its heyday it was inventive and often took a different path from its Continental rivals. The leading British brand in the mid-20th Century was … Continue reading →

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Misjudging the Moskva 5

Posted on October 6, 2011 by ambientimages

I’VE HAD a Moskva 5 folding camera for about three years. It is a Soviet Union clone of the German Super-Ikonta rangefinder, which was a world-class camera in its day, but like most Communist rip-offs, the Moskva has a tarnished … Continue reading →

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