Solida
The Welta Solida is a 6×9 folding camera released in 1933. It has a coupled rangefinder, separate from the viewfinder, in a long rectangular black box. It also has a brilliant finder. The lens is unit focused, driven by a small knob at one side of the folding bed, a system continued in the later Weltur series. The winding is by key, and there is no double exposure prevention. The Solida is dual format, having the ability to take 4.5×6 exposures with a mask inserted in the exposure chamber and a switchable mask built in the viewfinder.
Known lens/shutter combinations:
- Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 105/4.5 & Compur 250
- Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 105/4.5 & Compur-Rapid 400
- Schneider-Kreuznach Radionar f:4.5 F=10.5cm & Compur-Rapid 400
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The Franka Solida is a 6x6 folding camera released in 1936. There are different versions of the Franka Solida called Solida I, Solida II, Solida III, Solida Junior and Solida Record. The Solida III is a vertical folding camera, the other Solida-Versions are horizontal folders. Some prewar Solidas got the 4,5x6 format. There also cameras with uncoupeld rangefinder and uncoupeld lightmeter (IIE, IIL, IIIE, IIIL) and one version with both meters (IIIEL) . The Solida were produced till 1962.
Franka also build 1957 a camera with the name Solida 35, a rare 35mm camera with interchangeable lenses.
