My Favourite Camera #3

Elegance from 1937

Welta Weltini II

with Schneider-Kreuznach Xenon 2/50mm (1936)

  • an uncoated lens
  • unit focusing with a coupled rangefinder
  • an extremely quiet shutter
  • "left-handed", focusing with the right hand, shutter release with the left
  • focus returns automatically to infinity when the camera is closed
    and the shutter release button retracts to be flush with the top
  • weight 655 g, certainly one of the heaviest 35 mm folder cameras

 

 

The focus lever is here at the infinity position, the shutter is not cocked

Some Photos with Weltini II

(NB. Cheap commercial scanning to 6 Mp)


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