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Demaria Lapierre Telka III with Sagittar 95mm/3.5
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 11:31 pm    Post subject: Demaria Lapierre Telka III with Sagittar 95mm/3.5 Reply with quote
I just acquired one of these cameras, and there seems to be little on the net in the way of images taken by the camera. Anybody know this camera? When I get a chance I will post some photos of the camera.


PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 11:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Go here http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/listeD_imagettes.php, scroll down to Demaria-Lapierre, then scroll down to Folding.


PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 12:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
danfromm wrote:
Go here http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/listeD_imagettes.php, scroll down to Demaria-Lapierre, then scroll down to Folding.


Thanks. Unfortunately the link 404's me.


PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 12:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/page_standard_eng.php?id_appareil=10794


PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 12:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ah yes, many thanks. My example is in very good condition. Shutter works and sounds correct. Diaphragm works. The linkage for the camera top shutter button is missing pieces but the cable actuator portion functions. Bellows is intact. A few tiny spots of corrosion on the chrome. Rangefinder is dark though. I'll need to send it in to Certo 6 for CLA. The focus is slightly stiff. It has the English/French nomogram on the front. Anybody ever seen an English instruction manual? I can't wait to try it out. I'll have to use my Hugo Meyer rangefinder and guess a bit at exposures until I get some better information but I'll muddle through!


PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 12:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
jamaeolus wrote:
danfromm wrote:
Go here http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/listeD_imagettes.php, scroll down to Demaria-Lapierre, then scroll down to Folding.


Thanks. Unfortunately the link 404's me.


Sorry, hover over Appareils, click on Dacora A Durst.


PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 12:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
danfromm wrote:
jamaeolus wrote:
danfromm wrote:
Go here http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/listeD_imagettes.php, scroll down to Demaria-Lapierre, then scroll down to Folding.


Thanks. Unfortunately the link 404's me.


Sorry, hover over Appareils, click on Dacora A Durst.


Ah, Calvin gave me a different link to the same site. Thanks. I am really looking forward to seeing what this old beast can do.


PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 12:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I have a Telka III. It's a very nice camera and the 95mm Sagittar is a very good and sharp Tessar-type lens. Initially the camera was sold with a test-negative to check the quality of the lens. One of the best 6X9 RF folders ever made, on par with the British Ensign Autorange 820, they say. It is quite a rare camera.
Being such an old camera the RF may need adjustements - mine did. The best place to have it adjusted and CLA-ed is, IMO, Mr. Jurgen Kreckel (certo6):
http://www.certo6.com/cameras/telka-iii
The camera presented on his site is mine Smile - it was the first Telka III he ever saw.

Unfortunately I haven't used it much but I still have somewhere some negatives taken with it. I had some of them scanned when, few years ago, I presented the camera on Photo.net:
http://photo.net/classic-cameras-forum/00UfyO
but the photos are gone now.
I have even enlarged one of them to 60x90cm. It was perfectly sharp at that size, even at a closer look.

I'll try to find and post some of them here.


PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 1:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
dan_ wrote:
I have a Telka III. It's a very nice camera and the 95mm Sagittar is a very good and sharp Tessar-type lens. Initially the camera was sold with a test-negative to check the quality of the lens. One of the best 6X9 RF folders ever made, on par with the British Ensign Autorange 820, they say. It is quite a rare camera.
Being such an old camera the RF may need adjustements - mine did. The best place to have it adjusted and CLA-ed is, IMO, Mr. Jurgen Kreckel (certo6):
http://www.certo6.com/cameras/telka-iii
The camera presented on his site is mine Smile - it was the first Telka III he ever saw.

Unfortunately I haven't used it much but I still have somewhere some negatives taken with it. I had some of them scanned when, few years ago, I presented the camera on Photo.net:
http://photo.net/classic-cameras-forum/00UfyO
but the photos are gone now.
I have even enlarged one of them to 60x90cm. It was perfectly sharp at that size, even at a closer look.

I'll try to find and post them here.


Yeah, Jurgen's site was what got me interested. I plan to send the camera to him (along with a Telka I that I picked up a while back) for CLA after I play with it a bit.


PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 1:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Have you contacted him?
I'm curious if he's still working - he should be in his 80's by now, if I remember well!


PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 5:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
That's the photo taken with Telka III and Fuji Velvia which I enlarged 60x90cm with plenty detail:



PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 5:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes, I just e-mailed him, "out til the end of July" but apparently he is still working!


PostPosted: Sun Dec 04, 2016 6:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Here are sample B&W shots :

http://cosmonet.org/camera/telka_e.htm
http://cosmonet.org/camera/telka_sk2_e.htm
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