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What about a folding camera e.g. Zeiss Ikon?
They're a bit primative and lenses are a bit slow for handheld use in winter but the glass quality is decent and they're pretty cheap....
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Rik_Van_Looy-
Thanks for the suggestion.
I looked into these a while back. There's some beautiful cameras from that era..
In the end I decided against going that route, the major reasons were
a) while being rather cheap cameras that age will most likely need a complete CLA at least
b) dim / old / small finders - if any at all
c) narrow range of shutter speeds & slow glass -
A thing with folders is whilst the glass may be ok, the film often doesn't stay flat and sharpness suffers a bit.
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What about a folding camera e.g. Zeiss Ikon?
They're a bit primative and lenses are a bit slow for handheld use in winter but the glass quality is decent and they're pretty cheap....
After reading up about cheap compact 120 cameras I ended up going down a rabbit hole and just bought one of these for £25. Got one with the f4.5 lens so hopefully with Tri-X pushed 1 or 2 stops it's be fine.
Didn't realise there was so many cheap folders out there.In the meantime been enjoying my Mamiya C330
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Ste_S
Yea it is what it is of course, still the reality is that I will be carrying the thing with me about 300 days a year, so it just has to be something that isn't huge or heavy as fuck.
I love Mamiya 645's for example, and I have (a friends' one) here for 10 months now or so - but have shotten a total of 2,5 rolls with it until now as I just can't be assed to drag it around town on a regular basis.