This is a Super Pontura, a folding medium format rangefinder camera produced by Balda-Werk Dresden in Dresden, Germany between the years 1938 and 1939. The Super Pontura was a top of the line camera with features like a coupled split image rangefinder with automatic parallax correction, a top plate shutter…
This is a Super Baldina, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Balda-Werk Bünde in Bünde, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, starting in 1954. This was the second camera released by Balda with the name Super Baldina, the first being a completely unrelated folding camera produced in prewar East Germany between 1938…
This is a Baldessa Ib, a 35mm rangefinder made by Balda Kamera-Werk in Bünde, West Germany starting in 1958. This was the third, and best featured of the original Baldessa lineup, improving upon lesser Baldessas with a coupled rangefinder and uncoupled selenium exposure meter. The camera was well built, but…
