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| − | * [http://www.cosmonet.org/camera/pontur_e.htm Balda Super Pontura] at [http://www.cosmonet.org/camera/index_e.html the Classic Camera] | + | * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160328172624/http://www.cosmonet.org/camera/pontur_e.htm Balda Super Pontura] at [https://web.archive.org/web/20160325140625/http://www.cosmonet.org/camera/index_e.html the Classic Camera] (archived) |
[[Category: German 6x9 rangefinder folding]] | [[Category: German 6x9 rangefinder folding]] | ||
Revision as of 07:47, 22 March 2021
The Super Pontura was the top of the range of medium format folders made by Balda in Dresden, Germany, before World War II.
The camera is a 6×9cm folder with a coupled rangefinder and a very sleek design. The rangefinder and the viewfinder — with automatic parallax compensation, very rare for the time — have separate windows under a long chrome top housing. Styling is similar to the chrome version of the Baldaxette, a smaller 6×6 or 4.5×6 model of the same period.
 
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| Super Pontura, Tessar 10.5cm f/4.5 lens, Compur-Rapid shutter. image by eBayer Yalluflex (Image rights) |
The lenses offered for the Super Pontura included:
- Meyer Trioplan 10.5 cm f/4.5
- Meyer Trioplan 10.5 cm f/3.8
- Schneider Radionar 10.5 cm f/4.5
- Schneider Xenar 10.5 cm f/4.5
- Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 10.5 cm f/4.5
All were available with a Compur OS shutter to 1/250, or optionally with a Compur-Rapid shutter to 1/400.
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| Super Pontura with Trioplan f/3.8 lens image by Geoff Harrisson (Image rights) |
 
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| Leaflet showing the Super Pontura, dated 1938. (Image rights) |
External link
- Balda Super Pontura at the Classic Camera (archived)
