View attachment 1282919 Here is another rarity. Adox Mess-Golf IV - their top of the line 6 x 6 camera with 75mm f4.5 Steinheil Cassar lens in Prontor shutter.. Has a built-in but uncoupled rangefinder, making it the poor man's Mess-Ikonta.
Sold all my film cameras except my ME-Super outfit and the weirdo Canon Photura.
Yes, that Cheerios box has the pinhole and some white paper in the back with a peep-hole to view the image. That is how I followed the eclipse.I can remember the first eclipse I ever witnessed way back in the '60's. Dad had a big heavy cardboard tube about 6' long that we put some aluminum foil over the end of. Put a hole in the aluminum with a pin. Then aimed the tube at the sun and looked at the image projected on the ground. Pretty cool way to see it without risking our eye sight.
That is a real beauty. The reason I eventually got the Horseman technical camera is that I had been doing a lot of work with the Kodak folding cameras and was frustrated with estimation focus and the limited shutters and poor optics. I wonder if people viewing the thread realize what you have. Rangefinder focusing and a f2.8 Zeiss lens are features other folding cameras only dream of!View attachment 1350722 View attachment 1350721 My Zeiss Super Ikonta 532/16. Still works great.
View attachment 1364852 1893 Jules Richard Verascope. Stereoscopic camera with two Krauss Paris Tessar lenses using Waterhouse stops. First 35 mm camera with an automatic frame counter. Uses glass plates or film held in metal clips. Has both reflex and gunsight viewfinders.
I don't know if it still works. I cut some sheet film and took a few shots with the camera nearly 50 years ago when I first found it in a thrift shop in the basement of Dodge Hall at Columbia University in New York. It did work then, but has remained a shelf trophy ever since. I have no idea what happened to the test shots.
How about an old lens. Zuiko 50mm, f/1.8 from my Olympus OM-2n SLR that I bought in 1977. It's on a Panasonic Lumix GH-2, M 4/3s (2011). The warmth of old glass is very nice.