New aquisitions ( again )

[photax]

Hi !

I would like to show you my flea market finds from last weekend. I spied a worn out camera case including a camera at a table on which every article was priced with 2.- Euro. The camera looked good and there was no need for further price negotiations. It took me two days to find out the manufacturer, because this model is not listed in catalogues. It`s a 6x6 roll film camera named “Corina” with a telescopic Steiner-Beyreuth 1:2.9/75 lens in Pronto shutter made by Goldammer in Frankfurt, Germany, a relatively unknown company, in the mid 1950`s.



They made another interesting camera in 1959: the Goldeck 16 which I found some years ago, a 16mm film camera for 10x14mm exposures with interchangeable C-mount lens:



This one jumped for 8.- in my bag: A unmarked Brownie folder with a Kodak Anastigmat Rapide lens. It looks like the Brownie Pliant 620 from 1939, but the lens suggests that this one was made in France, or for France, I have no idea. Does anyone know this model ?



And for 10.- a heavy French Pathe Moto ( for 9.5mm movies ) with a Zeiss Tessar 1:2.7/20 from the late 1920`s including a case with accessory lenses and some film cassettes. I have some other Moto-models with French 3.5 lenses in my collection, but never seen one with a Tessar. The camera is fully working but in poor cosmetical condition, some work for the next weekend ;D…




MIK

[Randy]

Very nice Mik, I like that rangefinder.

[Deleted]

I wish we had flea markets like yours.

W.

[daveh]

I presume there has been a lot of photographic equipment locked up in Eastern Europe which is surfacing for the first time in many a year. Markets here, that have stalls selling cameras, tend to ask £50 for something that sells elsewhere for £5 (don't take figures too literally) so even if you beat the price down it's still overpriced. Anyway, nice finds again.

Corrections now done - a case of "written in haste, corrected at leisure."

[photax]

Dave, you are right, most of the sellers there were from Hungary and Slovakia.
I have already cleaned the 9.5mm Pathe and I had forgotten to show you the Balda Baldamatic 1 Rangefinder ( for 18.- ). It`s looking new, has a Baldinar 2.8/45 in Prontormat shutter and is working properly ( even the light meter ). The camera came with original box, case, flash with flashbulbs, manual and a guarantee card from 1961. Someone wrote on the box " camera is ok", it really is ;D





MIK

[PeterW]

MIK,

You've done a beautiful job on the Pathe 9.5mm cine camera. What technique did you use for the scuffing of the leather on the top corner? This an area of restoration where I've had very mixed success.

PeterW

[daveh]

"You've done a beautiful job on the Pathe 9.5mm cine camera. What technique did you use for the scuffing of the leather on the top corner? This an area of restoration where I've had very mixed success."


It's easy in terms of making it look nice to go on here - you just photoshop it. The real thing is a bit more difficult to achieve - and you have achieved it.

I can't see that I could ever achieve a collection anything like as comprehensive as yours, MIK. The sort of equipment you buy isn't available to us here - well, not without paying 'top dollar'.

[photax]

Hi Peter,

It`s not "PS" as Dave suspected ( I have no Photoshop at all ). If I have to deal with scuffed leather, I first fix the still remaining parts with textile adhesive, mostly with tweezer and cotton bud. Then I grind the part with a very fine wet sanding paper. And here is the part which should not be imitated before you do some tests: I paint the part with a mixture of black lacquer, black shoe polish and a little water. I stumbled over that mixture while experimenting with old camera leather repair some years ago. I do not have a special mixture ratio, it always depends on the condition of the leather.

MIK

[PeterW]

MIK

Many thanks for sharing the process you use on scuffed leather.

It's similar to the method I usually try except that for sticking down the remaining scuffed-up bits I usually use cockpit cement from my local model aircraft shop (Randy will no doubt be familiar with this). I've found this is an excelent adhesive for joining leather, I use it to hold the parts of a camera case where the stitching has perished before sewing again with waxed carpet thread.

I must admit I never thought of using an acrylic black lacquer mixed with water and black shoe polish. This is something I must expriment with.

PeterW

[colray]

Fantastic cameras

[mickeyobe]

MIK,

Your collection must be awesome.

Mickey

[photax]

Mickey,

I dont know if it is awesome, but what I can say ist that my collection is very extensive ;-)
I am still working on new shelves, but unfortunately I have little time these days.
Maybe I`ll post some pictures in the near future.

MIK