>>3059113>Are the old 120 folders worth it?I've got like a zillion cameras, shop extensively for them, always searching secondhandies, and I've inspected dozens of these.
I've only found 1 (one) that wasn't fucked, and that's only because it is a dead simple one, no rangefinder, 3 shutter speeds, manual cocking, knob wind, and it had been kept in its box for the last 70 years, by the look of it. Even then, the lense is garbage, and the focus calibrations on the front standard are miles off. It's an Ensign 6x9 with a Rapid Rectimat (I think) f/8. I paid $120 for it, I get better negs out of box brownies.
The Zeisses are always broken. Also, the lenses are made of cheese grade glass, so if it's been used, it's rubbed to shit, and also the bellows will be shagged.
If you can find one that's in LNIB condidtion, and film tested, then by all means I'm sure it will be a lovely camera, but there are just way too many ways for them to fuck up from me to gamble on an ebay one.
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