Today I went back to the Antique Mall and came home with a novel published in 1945 (with original dust jacket), and this lovely Zeiss Ikon Nettar II Iv (518/16) with a Novar Anastigmat f4.5/75mm lens (Rodenstock) and a Vario shutter (manufactured: Jul 58 - Dec 59). A 6cm x 6cm medium format camera marketed to "amateur" users, it takes 120 film and is the little brother to the much more expensive Zeiss Ikonta camera. This particular model has Double-Exposure prevention, which I am pretty happy about, since I do sometimes forget to advance the film after taking a shot.
It is only a few years older than I am, but is in amazing condition for its age. It is very clean, inside and out, has a metal take up spool that I hope to be able to get back from the developer when I send my film in (I have no place in my home to put a darkroom). It is now loaded with Kodak Portra 400 color film, spooled up to the first frame ready for exposure. I am thinking of taking it over to the metropark after work tomorrow to take a couple of shots of the warterfall there...
@taffy@rumpelstiltskin Thanks for commenting! I am still a bit giddy about finally finding a 120 film 6x6 camera in working order. :-) I haven't taken it out to shoot with yet, but if the weather cooperates this weekend, I'll take it out then.
@phil_howcroft I have several vintage cameras from the first half of the 20th century, but only a few are actually useable now. My 1920s Brownie has terrible light leaks, and I have several of the old Kodak folding cameras from the 1930s that uses the now extinct 616 film. Someone said that I could buy film to cut and spool myself, but I have no place to make a darkroom, and I don't know of anyone near me who knows how to do something like that.
So I will continue to use my Argus C and Argus A and A2 35mm cameras, but I think this Zeiss will be my new go-to film camera because it is so light compared to the Argus "Bricks". :-)
@rumpelstiltskin Thank you very much, Lynn. I do plan on sharing the developed photos here once I get used to it. Now that the COVID-19 restrictions are being lifted in a couple of weeks, I will have more freedom to go to interesting places to take photos than in my living room. :-)
So I will continue to use my Argus C and Argus A and A2 35mm cameras, but I think this Zeiss will be my new go-to film camera because it is so light compared to the Argus "Bricks". :-)