Your content is very easy to watch. It's simple and premium and same time. Good work!

Great photographs! Watching you compose, meter and shoot your photos took me back to the first video I watched by you, “Why shoot film”? The intrinsic value of the photograph taken when this camera came out was VERY high! Film and processing but the time required to make a photo was minutes not seconds like my iPhone. Watching the sun and shadows you had a couple hours in two rolls or 16 exposures. That’s a commitment! If you were using an extinction meter imagine how much longer?! The color images were excellent!! Love Ektar! Thanks for the video.

When shooting with old cameras. I use a digital camera in shutter priority to address the different shutter speeds. The modern meters give perfect exposure and a preview. This really helps me. Thanks for your great and most informative videos.

An excellent presentation of the 1930s Super Ikonta. I enjoyed it. Parallax errors are common with that type of finder when shooting close-in. I own two 6x9 folders. The one thing not mentionrd with regards to 6x9 medium format is many advanced amateurs made contact prints back in the day - which yielded a whopping 2-1/4 by 3-1/4 print -

after decades back to analog, owning a Zeiss Ikon Ikonta 521/2 and just shot the first rolls (anxiously waiting for the result 🙂) GREAT video! Keep up the good work!

I agreed with you that the colour photos came out really well and I enjoyed the double exposure. Your final monochrome photograph did get a wow from me for what it's worth. I'm not quite ready to try out 120 film, but I do think you have sparked an interest in me to try.

i actually really like the double exposure a lot more. It looks surrealist

I love folders. Best design ever made....especially for medium format. A 6x9 negative from something I can put in my pocket...epic. The best camera that was never made would have been a 6x9 Agfa Super Isolette. The Super Isolate was the rolex of folders to me but it is 6x6 only. A format I never got on with. I have a Bessa II which is the best 6x9 I have used. I love that camera and the images are outstanding. I have yet to use the Zeiss. It is definitley on my list.

Gorgeous photos from an old marvel! I'm still a little scared to dip my toes into analogue after ten years of digital, but your videos make it look so easy. I might get bitten by the film bug soon enough :) Keep up the great work!

Love your videos. I have a Super Ikonta 530 /16, which gives a six by six cm format. It has the viewfinder located in the top rear, slightly to the left of center. I find this a much better arrangement, although requiring a little more parallax compensation. The boundaries are quite precise. I agree that the results for color film are surprisingly good despite the uncoated lens. This model also has double exposure prevention built in, but the "always wind on" or "never wind on" methods will be adequate if you make it a rigorous habit. I actually like this rig for handheld shooting more than in tripod use. I have also read that the shutter does not have intermediate speeds, although I'm not 100% certain. Of course, the apertures are usable at the intermediate values, so I generally use that to compensate. My light meters all have both the old-time and conventional shutter speeds indicated, so that helps as well. Keep up the great work! Andy

Absolutely fantastic

After seeing several, if not all of the videos, you posted I got a general idea of ​​your workflow - spot light meter, incident light meter and so on - what I would really like to see is a video on film processing - the results you show are always consistent regardless of the choice of film - thanks in advance

Thank you, it's an important knowledge to share, loved your channel

I have one just like that, a 530/2 purchased for $35 at a antique shop. It worked from the start and I use it regularly.

My late grandfather, who was born in 1912 and passed away in 1980, owned a Zeiss Ikonta, and I have most of his negatives from the 1940’s to the late 1960’s. I can remember him taking photos of me and my mum and dad, when I was a toddler. Anyway, I don’t know what film he used (probably Ilford or Selo), but the negatives are very sharp and have good contrast. Unfortunately he didn’t take any photos during his time in the army, during WW2. He was a Sargeant in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

Yay thanks for the color photos :). And wow I am quite shocked to be honest .. That camera takes some pretty nice photos .. Yeah not sure id make it my every day shooter lol. I am with you on the whole SLR spoiledness lol.

I am glad you serviced this camera and is alive and well again :) It is true you have to go wider and crop a bit. As i just love 1930s cameras i learned to live with that. As for double explosures this is another tricky thing to connsider, but i follow the routine of winding the film before each exposure for a reason. Even 35mm folders, if not equiped with an air escapment system, when you unfold them (for example Plaubel Makina has an air espape system) they present a considerable amount if sunction to the film, and this might move it out of focal plane. 6x9s are much more prone to that of course.

The great discipline of ancient cameras! Always good to get in the click, roll habit!

Great video! I have one. I just use TMax 100 and Sunny 16 rule. Perfect exposure. Fun camera to use.

Wonderful images and wonderful camera.

Great! But i also would like to see portraits made on each old camera that you use, not only views and objects, it gives another point of view on this cameas, on lenses.

Welcome back. Color was a perfect choice. I actually liked the double exposure. Great video as always

I've got to get you to shoot with a Werramatic. It has paralax correction and frame lines for 35mm, 50mm and 100mm lenses. It is a sweet, compact and unique 35mm camera. Let me know when you want to give it a whirl. Super Ikonta cameras of the 50's and 60's had better view finders, at least more accurate than these old beasts with their pop up "guesstimate" finders. I have that problem with my Welta Perle!

As always, great review! I’ve been looking to buy an Ikonta, but all the models and combinations make it so confusing that I’ve yet to pull the trigger.

thanks for an interesting episode. i share the same experience with folding mf 120 film cameras from 30s. they are cool but bit tricky to handle.

Just wondering where you are getting some of these older cameras? Nice to see you shoot some color film in this episode!

So i am really new to the channel. Found you while researching the bronica s2a before i bought it. I have a bunch of folding cameras like this that are mostly shelf displays right now. I dont really use them because i am so nervous about light leaks from the bellows. I dont know if u have covered this in a past video but i would love to know a way to identify light leaks in these style cameras without having to sacrifice a roll of film in this economy. If it is in a past video let me know and i will go back and give it a watch. great channel and really glad i found it as i am getting back into shooting film.

I just have the Russia copy, the Moskva V. But I think, it`s hard to find the right composition with the fiewfinder. So I changed to Fuji 690 and Horseman 6x9.

Hi, did you cover the film number window to prevent fogging?

May I know of what brand and model of film you are using in this video?

I'm underwhelmed by mine after maybe a dozen rolls of film. IMHO, the Voigtlander Bessa models are easier to use and produce better results in B&W (I don't shoot color).