My Balda Baldix
This is my Balda Baldix 6x6 camera.
It has a Pronto shutter with speeds from 1/25 to 1/200 + B, flash sync, self timer and fitted with Baltar f4.5 C 75mm lens. I believe the C stands for 'colour' meaning the lens is specially corrected to cope with colour film. The camera is in perfect working order.
This camera has the cheaper lens (but it is still good when stopped down). The more expensive Enna-Werk Ennagon lens is better quality. There was also a model with a Baltar f2.9 lens in Prontor SV shutter. This was probably the most expensive version of the camera.
The company Balda Kamera Werk was based in west Germany and made good quality cameras. At the end of WWII the company became part of VEB Pentacon group. They stopped making cameras in 1985.
Manual:
http://www.butkus.org/chinon/baldix_6x6/baldix_6x6.htm
References:
http://www.marriottcameras.co.uk/advertising/balda/2baldas.htm
http://www.mattdentonphoto.com/cameras/balda_baldix.html
It has a Pronto shutter with speeds from 1/25 to 1/200 + B, flash sync, self timer and fitted with Baltar f4.5 C 75mm lens. I believe the C stands for 'colour' meaning the lens is specially corrected to cope with colour film. The camera is in perfect working order.
This camera has the cheaper lens (but it is still good when stopped down). The more expensive Enna-Werk Ennagon lens is better quality. There was also a model with a Baltar f2.9 lens in Prontor SV shutter. This was probably the most expensive version of the camera.
The company Balda Kamera Werk was based in west Germany and made good quality cameras. At the end of WWII the company became part of VEB Pentacon group. They stopped making cameras in 1985.
Manual:
http://www.butkus.org/chinon/baldix_6x6/baldix_6x6.htm
References:
http://www.marriottcameras.co.uk/advertising/balda/2baldas.htm
http://www.mattdentonphoto.com/cameras/balda_baldix.html
posted by MarkT at 12:10 PM
1 Comments:
Hey, just a minor note on your post. Balda wasn't absorbed into VEB Pentacon after the war. Only the Dresden operations were. The Baldix was produced after the war in Wester Germany. Balda were based in Bunde, near the Dutch border.
Cheers!
Karl
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