Ash
30-Jan-2007, 14:31
Hey all,
I thought I'd ask here, since I'm all out of ideas to Google.
My grandfather gave me a Zeiss Ikon Nettar 515, that's pretty obvious what it is, and how old. It belonged to his brother, my father's uncle Gordon. Lot of sentimental attachment.
BUT!
My grandfather also gave me another camera. He'd bought it in the 50's from a second hand (pawn) shop for his wife, my grandmother.
There is no marking on the camera to identify what it is. All I know is it's a 6x9 folder.
The only information I can give to help identify it is as follows:
Lens: Spezial Aplanat f/8 10,5cm
Aperture: Sliding lever along lower area of camera 8 11 16 25(?) 32 (these are well worn and dull, difficult to read)
Shutter - self-cocking lever: Vario - 25 50 100 B T
Viewfinder: reflective mirror thing (with the top and front magnifiers and a 45degree mirror)
Focusing: Rail. lens extends on small rail and clicks into place.. There is a small ivory-looking (probably faux, or plastic) focusing tab, like a ruler with INF 30 16 10 6 FEET
Inside on either side where the spools go there are the markings DRP and DRGM respectively. This leads me to believe it's german, as well as the spelling of the lens name, and use of cm and a comma on the focal length.
The inner black metal has a painted finish, kind of like a half matte, half shiny crackle effect. Pretty old looking!
I THINK from a search for the lens on google an east-asian site called one an Ernemann, but there wasn't a photo of the camera they used.
The Vario shutter can't be older than 1912, and if it's an Ernemann it can't be younger than 1926.
I'm halfway through restoring the finish. I stripped the old tired and grotty black leather and it's replaced with vegetable tanned goatskin from a friend in the Philippines, so I doubt anyone here has seen one with the same finish. Looks a little rubbish right now, the edges need cleaning up, and paint needs redoing before I can say it looks half decent.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/erny5.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/erny4.jpg
Anyway! That's all I can tell you, so what can you tell me??
Can someone here enlighten me on the camera?
Thanks!
I thought I'd ask here, since I'm all out of ideas to Google.
My grandfather gave me a Zeiss Ikon Nettar 515, that's pretty obvious what it is, and how old. It belonged to his brother, my father's uncle Gordon. Lot of sentimental attachment.
BUT!
My grandfather also gave me another camera. He'd bought it in the 50's from a second hand (pawn) shop for his wife, my grandmother.
There is no marking on the camera to identify what it is. All I know is it's a 6x9 folder.
The only information I can give to help identify it is as follows:
Lens: Spezial Aplanat f/8 10,5cm
Aperture: Sliding lever along lower area of camera 8 11 16 25(?) 32 (these are well worn and dull, difficult to read)
Shutter - self-cocking lever: Vario - 25 50 100 B T
Viewfinder: reflective mirror thing (with the top and front magnifiers and a 45degree mirror)
Focusing: Rail. lens extends on small rail and clicks into place.. There is a small ivory-looking (probably faux, or plastic) focusing tab, like a ruler with INF 30 16 10 6 FEET
Inside on either side where the spools go there are the markings DRP and DRGM respectively. This leads me to believe it's german, as well as the spelling of the lens name, and use of cm and a comma on the focal length.
The inner black metal has a painted finish, kind of like a half matte, half shiny crackle effect. Pretty old looking!
I THINK from a search for the lens on google an east-asian site called one an Ernemann, but there wasn't a photo of the camera they used.
The Vario shutter can't be older than 1912, and if it's an Ernemann it can't be younger than 1926.
I'm halfway through restoring the finish. I stripped the old tired and grotty black leather and it's replaced with vegetable tanned goatskin from a friend in the Philippines, so I doubt anyone here has seen one with the same finish. Looks a little rubbish right now, the edges need cleaning up, and paint needs redoing before I can say it looks half decent.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/erny5.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/erny4.jpg
Anyway! That's all I can tell you, so what can you tell me??
Can someone here enlighten me on the camera?
Thanks!