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The '''Baldessa I''' was introduced in 1957 with a [[Isco|Westanar]] 45/2.8 lens in a [[Prontor]]-SVS shuttter. It was updated in 1958 to have a bright-line finder, with a second window to illuminate the frame. This model has a Baldanar, [[Isco|Color-Isconar]] or Westanar 45mm/f2.8 lens in a 3-speed [[Vario]], [[Pronto]], Prontor 125 or Prontor-SVS shutter.  The base has a film reminder fitted around the tripod bush, and the rewind release is angled out to form a foot for standing on a horizontal surface.
 
The '''Baldessa I''' was introduced in 1957 with a [[Isco|Westanar]] 45/2.8 lens in a [[Prontor]]-SVS shuttter. It was updated in 1958 to have a bright-line finder, with a second window to illuminate the frame. This model has a Baldanar, [[Isco|Color-Isconar]] or Westanar 45mm/f2.8 lens in a 3-speed [[Vario]], [[Pronto]], Prontor 125 or Prontor-SVS shutter.  The base has a film reminder fitted around the tripod bush, and the rewind release is angled out to form a foot for standing on a horizontal surface.
 
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===Baldessa 1a===
 
The Baldessa 1a was introduced in 1958, and adds a [[rangefinder (device)|coupled rangefinder]] to the Baldessa I design. It was available with a Color-Westanar or Baldanar 45/2.8 lens in a Prontor-SVS shutter.
 
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Baldessa, c.1964
Isco-Göttingen Color-Isconar,
45mm/2.8 in Prontor 125 shutter
image by AWCam (Image rights)

The Baldessa is a range of comparatively cheaply-made 35mm viewfinder and rangefinder cameras produced by Balda in Germany from c.1957 to the late 1960s[1].


Baldessas have an unusual folding film advance key in the base - requiring a 180° turn, along with a spring-out rewind crank. On the simpler models, this along with the front-mounted shutter release and the frame counter to the left of the viewfinder ocular leaves the top plate empty except for the accessory shoe. Early models have a removable back; later examples are hinged.


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Baldessa base, showing winder
(unfolded) and rewind crank
image by AWCam (Image rights)


Baldessa I

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Baldessa I, 1958 model with Baldanar
lens in Vario 25/50/200+B shutter
image by AWCam (Image rights)

The Baldessa I was introduced in 1957 with a Westanar 45/2.8 lens in a Prontor-SVS shuttter. It was updated in 1958 to have a bright-line finder, with a second window to illuminate the frame. This model has a Baldanar, Color-Isconar or Westanar 45mm/f2.8 lens in a 3-speed Vario, Pronto, Prontor 125 or Prontor-SVS shutter. The base has a film reminder fitted around the tripod bush, and the rewind release is angled out to form a foot for standing on a horizontal surface.

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Baldessa 1a
image by Peter Back (Image rights)

Baldessa 1a

The Baldessa 1a was introduced in 1958, and adds a coupled rangefinder to the Baldessa I design. It was available with a Color-Westanar or Baldanar 45/2.8 lens in a Prontor-SVS shutter.

Baldessa 1b

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Baldessa 1B, c.1958
image by SteveMPhoto (Image rights)

The Baldessa 1B has an added uncoupled selenium light meter and coupled rangefinder. Design was by Karl-Heinz Lange.

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Baldessa 1B base
winder stowed;film
reminder around tripod bush
image by SteveMPhoto (Image rights)


Baldessa F

The Baldessa F models have a flashbulb holder built-in to the top plate.

Baldessa LK, LF, F-LK, RF, R-LK & RF-LK

The 'L' models include a light meter; the LK's is coupled, the F means that there is AG-1 bulb flash-holder; the 'R' models have a rangefinder. The RF-LK has a rangefinder, a flash-holder and a coupled lightmeter.

Sources

  1. ↑ McKeown, pp.96-7
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