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== Links == | == Links == | ||
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| − | * [http://www.cosmonet.org/camera/bdk_e.htm The Baldaxette at Cosmonet Classic Camera] | + | * [https://web.archive.org/web/20170609180116/http://www.cosmonet.org/camera/bdk_e.htm The Baldaxette] at [https://web.archive.org/web/20170609131749/http://www.cosmonet.org/camera/index_e.html Cosmonet Classic Camera] (archived) |
[[Category: German 4.5x6 rangefinder folding]] | [[Category: German 4.5x6 rangefinder folding]] | ||
[[Category: German 6x6 rangefinder folding]] | [[Category: German 6x6 rangefinder folding]] | ||
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[[Category: Balda]] | [[Category: Balda]] | ||
[[Category: B]] | [[Category: B]] | ||
[[Category: 1936]] | [[Category: 1936]] | ||
Latest revision as of 04:35, 4 July 2023
The Baldaxette is a coupled-rangefinder folding camera launched by the German company Balda in the mid-1930s.
The Baldaxette I (1936) is the 4.5×6 version and the Baldaxette II (1937) the 6×6 version. They are nearly identical aside from the film format. They were based on the Baldax body for #0 shutter size. The cameras were first sold in black and later in chrome, with the coupled rangefinder and the viewfinder in separate windows under a long top housing. The styling of the later chrome version is very similar to that of the bigger 6×9 model Super Pontura.
  
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| Baldaxette II, black, Compur, Xenar 7.5cm f/2.8. Pictures by eBayer Yalluflex. (Image rights) |
The lenses available on the Baldaxette included:
- Meyer Trioplan 7.5cm f/2.9
- Schneider Radionar 7.5cm f/2.9
- Schneider Xenar 7.5cm f/2.8
- Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 8cm f/3.5
- Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 8cm f/2.8
All were available with the Compur OS shutter to 1/250s, and could be optionally fitted with the Compur-Rapid shutter to 1/400s.
  
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| Baldaxette II, chrome, Compur, Tessar 8cm f/2.8. Pictures by eBayer Yalluflex. (Image rights) |
 
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| Leaflet showing the Baldaxette, dated 1938. (Image rights) |
Links
In English:
- The Baldaxette at Cosmonet Classic Camera (archived)
