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Help identifying camera?


michael_oneill2

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While "organizing" the chaos known as my photographs, I came across some peculiar negatives from the mid 1960s. The film itself is 120 or 620, but the frame size is 4.25 x 4.5 cm. I've searched extensively and the only camera from that era that I can find that took 4x4 was the Agfa Isoly, and I'm certain we did not have such a camera. To deepen the mystery, I was the person who took the photos, but none of the cameras that I had at my disposal could have taken these pictures. I'm all but certain that the only camera I was using at the time was a Yashica TLR, probably a Yashica-A. I know that Yashica made a 4x4 TLR but that was clearly not the camera that I had, as attested to by the numerous 120 6x6 negatives that I have from that time.

 

Any ideas?

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This isn't your answer, but there is a Japanese folder, the Atom Six, which can make 12 square pictures on a roll, which are rather smaller than normal at about 53mm square, or with an extra mask, makes sixteen frames about 50x43mm on a roll. This is close to an old Japanese plate size, though whether that's why they chose to do it is doubtful.
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