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Revision as of 21:32, 15 August 2006
Balda was a German maker based in Dresden that made a quantity of medium-range folders before World War II. It was quite comparable to Welta or Certo.
After the war, Balda was nationalized in East Germany, and later became Belca. It continued for some time to produce little 35mm folders like the Beltica, and was finally absorbed by Welta.
Its founder Max Baldeweg fled to West Germany, and set up a new company called Balda (Balda Kamera-Werk), this time based in Bünde, West Germany. The new Balda company produced a series of 35mm and medium-format rollfilm cameras, and some of them were sold under Hans Porst's HAPO label. Balda later produced cameras in both 126 and 110 cartridge format. The company discontinued camera production in the late 1970s.
Contents
Balda Dresden, later Belca
35mm folder
- Jubilette
- Baldina
- Super Baldina (coupled rangefinder)
120 folder
- Juwella (6×9)
- Baldafix (6×9)
- Baldax (4.5×6, #00 shutter size)
- Baldax (4.5×6, #0 shutter size)
- Baldax (6×6, #0 shutter size)
- Baldaxette I (4.5×6, coupled rangefinder)
- Baldaxette II (6×6, coupled rangefinder)
- Super Pontura (6×9, coupled rangefinder)
- HAPO 45 (6×9 and 4.5×6)
120 box
- Frontbox (6×9)
- Rollbox (6×9)
- Poka (6×9)
127 folder
- Baldi (3×4)
- Rigona (3×4)
Plate models
Belca
35mm folder
- Beltica I (vertical style folding, like the pre-war Baldina)
- Beltica II (horizontal style folding)
35mm stereo
- Belplasca, with a pair of Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 37.5mm/3.5
120 folder
- Belfoca (6×9)
Balda Bünde
35mm folder
- Baldini
- Rival 35
- Rigona
- Baldinette
- Mess-Baldinette (uncoupled rangefinder), also sold as Hapo 35
- Super Baldinette (coupled rangefinder)
35mm fixed lens
- Baldina
- Super Baldina (coupled rangefinder)
- Baldessa / Baldessa I
- Baldessamat F / RF
- Super Baldamatic I / II / III
35mm ultra compact
- CA 35
- CE 35
- CS 35
6×6 folder
- Baldi 29
- Baldix
- Mess-Baldix (uncoupled rangefinder), also sold as Hapo 66e
- Baldax
- Super Baldax (coupled rangefinder)
6×6 collapsible lens
- Baldixette
Links
In German:
- There is a short history of Balda at dresdner-kameras.de, see under "Firmen"
- Balda page at Frank Petermann's site
In French:
