TiendaAntikes.: ANTIGUA Y PEQUEÑA CAMARA DE FUELLE BALDA. MODELO BALDINA. AÑOS 30. FUNCIONANDO

ANTIGUA Y PEQUEÑA CAMARA DE FUELLE BALDA. MODELO BALDINA. AÑOS 30. FUNCIONANDO

Estéticamente en muy buen estado, casi perfecta.

Obturador compur rapid de diez velocidades, que funciona en todas ellas.

Lente Zeiss Tessar f:3,5/50mm.

(6125)

The Baldina and Super Baldina were a series of cameras manufactured in Germany by Balda Werke from the mid 1930s to the mid 1950s. These cameras can be very confusing to the collector, as the basic original camera body was enhanced and marketed under more than a dozen different names by two different manufacturers (both of which used the name Balda for a period of time). To further complicate matters, the name Baldina (and Super Baldina) was used on two very different series of camera bodies. The cheaper variants tended to have 3 element front cell focusing lenses in Prontor shutters, while the more expensive variants had 4, 5 or 6 element unit focusing lenses in Compur shutters.

In addition to marketing cameras under their own brand names, Balda sold their cameras to the German distributor Porst, who re-branded them as the Hapo 35, and to the American firm of Peerless, who re-branded them as the Rival 35; there may have been others as well. Balda did not make their own lenses — the Balda Baldinars, Baltars and others were rebranded lenses from third party optical houses, usually as a lower cost option.

Pre-war Baldas were well made, and most continue to function well. Some of their engineering was, admittedly, less than elegent. The pre-war Baldina's film counter was inconvenient to use, and the rangefinder on the Super Baldina was rather clumsy looking at best. The owner's manuals of the post-war Rigona, Baldinette, and Super Baldinette warn "Do not press the body shutter release unless the shutter is cocked. If you do so, the mechanism will be disturbed" (these statements themselves are a bit disturbing!) Also, the Super Baldinette's front cover will not close when either the synch lever is in the "M" position or the lens is not at the infinity position.