Some Voigtländer Bessa pics.

Bogie · Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 7:15 am Post subject: Some Voigtländer Bessa pics.

Here are some 6x9 pictures taken with my (more than 65 years old) Voigtländer Bessa foldercamera. Film used Kodak 400TX.

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Nesster · Expire: 2014-02-20

Nice result - I see you even get DOF there Laughing

on the lantern shot. Very interesting results actually. What lens does the folder have, is it a Bessa I? Love those cameras.

Bogie · Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 10:36 am Post subject:

It is a Bessa built between 1942/1945 and has a Skopar-lens (uncoated Tessar-type). Here is a picture from the camera (serialnumber 2760591).

Minolfan · Joined: 30 Dec 2008 Posts: 3438 Location: Netherlands

Nice pictures with that oldie!

Nesster · Expire: 2014-02-20

Very nice - though I think you may be off by 5 or so years on the when-made - late 30s is more likely, though who knows.. your results are better than what I get with a similar Bessa that Bill (katastrofo) sent me.

I'm even more impressed.

rbelyell · Expire: 2014-01-31

very impressive indeed. camera is amazingly sharp for its age, and very nice composition as well.

Bogie · Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:48 pm Post subject:

estudleon · Joined: 15 May 2008 Posts: 3754 Location: Argentina

Very, very nice pics.

As we know, the white walls and the cloudy days are so strong for the uncoated lenses.

I found that the bokeh is similar to the skopar 2,8/50 (both the srl and the rf lenses). And don't like it very much.

But generaly, the IQ is good to me.

Rino.

mmelvis · Expire: 2015-05-09

Very last picture is great. The camera is very nice to, glad to see old hardware getting a workout