MTC Photography Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 10 x10 mm : Goerz Minicord<br/> 14x14mm Gemflex, Tone camera, all HIT type cameras<br/> 24x24mm Robot I, Robot II, Robot III, Robot Royal, Zeiss Tenax, Zeiss Taxona, Mecaflex, Agfa Isomat Rapid <br/> 4x4 Baby Rolleiflex, Yashica 44 and 44LM 40x40mm<br/> 6x6cm Rolleiflex, Rolleicord, Ikoflex, Ricohflex, YashicatMat 6x6... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustin McAmera Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 My hoard:<p> 2¼-inch square folders, including some that can do 2¼ square as one of two or more sizes:<p> Agfa Isolette III; Certo Super Sport Dolly (two of those; they also do 4.5x6, or 2¼x1⅝, since I started in inches!); AGI Agifold; Ensign Ranger Special (also does 2¼x3¼ with hinged masks); Century Graphic (I have backs for 2¼ square and 2¼x3¼)<p> 'Sort-of 2-inch square' folder: Atom Six II. This folder takes 120 film, but it has a large margin round the image. The image is 53mm square, or you can put in a reducing mask for sixteen frames 50x43mm - what sort of size is that? <p> 2¼ TLR: only a Lubitel 166B.<p> 2¼ square SLR: KW Pilot Super.<p> 4cm TLR: Yashica 44 and 44LM.<p> 4cm Others: Kodak Brownie 44A<p><p><p> From the Pilot Super: the old paper mill in Otley, West Yorkshire:<p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted March 10, 2017 Author Share Posted March 10, 2017 nice photo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allard_wunderink Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Strange looking posts. Where do all those HTML-tags come from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustin McAmera Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Ah - in the old time, that was what you had to do to get a line break. You young 'uns won't remember, but to us oldies, it seems like just yesterday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puderse Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 You left out Instamatic and 110 !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James G. Dainis Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 The HTML tags are showing up because the posters put them there. At first, with the new version of Photo.net, just using the ENTER key would not get the line breaks to appear in the post. People would use <BR> or <P> to get the line or paragraph breaks. Now that has been corrected and the HTML codes, <BR><P>, are no longer needed, just hit the ENTER key when writing the post. In the old posts where the HTML code was used, that code now shows up but those posts will fade into history soon enough. James G. Dainis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a._t._burke Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Mr. Puderse... The 110 although a smaller format was not square at 13mm x 17mm. The original Instamatic in 126 was square and nominally 28mm x 28mm. A. T. Burke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted March 11, 2017 Author Share Posted March 11, 2017 Robt Royal III 24x24 format Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted March 11, 2017 Author Share Posted March 11, 2017 Zeiss Ikon Taxona 24 x24 camera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julio Fernandez Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Several folders (Super Isolette, Nettar, Perkeo); Rolleicord and Autocord TLRs in 120 size. Recently got a Tenax I, 35mm - 24 x 24 mm about 1940 but it is still in CLA stage. Best of square format is not having to choose orientation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted March 11, 2017 Author Share Posted March 11, 2017 One of my Taxona has defective shutter. The shutter after firing does not close, I have to tap the camera with a small hammer to loosen the stuck 3-leave shutter blades to close it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Gammill Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 My square format cameras in order of acquisition: Windsor (like the Diana) took 16 4x4 cm images on 120- bought for three Popsicle coupons and 65 cents in 1966 (later it fell apart) Sears 127 (Imperial Cubex) in 1968 (12 4x4 images on 127) Kodak Instamatic 124 (28 x 28 mm) received as gift in 1970 Yashicamat D (bought used in 1987) Rolleicord III (bought used in 2004) Yashica 44A (12 4x4 on 127) 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwmcbroom Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 My adventures with square format began a few decades ago with a new Yashica Mat 124G. Over the ensuing years, I've owned a few Rollieflex Automats -- mx--evs models, a 2.8 C and D with Xenotar and Planar, a few Zeiss Super Ikonta Bs -- one B and two BXes -- an Ikonta, an Agfa Isolette III and a Yashica Mat 124 (not G). Currently, I own the Agfa Isolette III, the Zeiss Ikonta, a Super Ikonta BX, and the Yashica Mat 124. Of all the ones I've owned but wish I still owned, it would be the Rolleiflex C and D. There was just something special about those lenses. Their images had a wonderful, almost Daguerreotype quality about them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick_drawbridge Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 (edited) One of my favourite square format cameras, the the Minolta 24 Rapid. Loading 35mm stock into the Rapid canisters is easy, and this camera is very usable, producing excellent results. Minolta 24 Rapid Edited March 13, 2017 by rick_drawbridge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Gammill Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 Great example of Minolta 24 Rapid, Rick. Somewhere in storage building I have an Agfa Rapid which has a simple f 11 lens and single speed shutter as well as built-in AG-1 reflector. I think it was their answer to the Instamatic. To compare, the Kodapak cartridge (126) did allow a slightly bigger 28 x 28 frame but it wasn't held as flat as most 35mm rapid formats. Also I think the highest performing lenses and metering systems were found among the better rapid models. Finally, the 126 cartridge was bulky meaning that a rapid camera of similar specs could be smaller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck_foreman1 Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 I have little experience with half frame 35mm. There have been so many fine cameras made. I had a Yashica model,that I gave away. It was a auto exposure model, and the meter was dead somehow. The lens looked fine, but it didn'T work!! When I first started using a Yashica D. I wanted MF quality and I liked it!! And the square format was .. well you have to "get it" ie.. you frame for squares becasue you can't turn the camera ... so you just deal with it. I loved the TLRs and I had/have a few. Later though I grew to dilike it.. The 3:2 ratio makes more sense to my concept...and those TLRs at waist level became limiting..not least of all becasue of the viewing and my failing eyesight with age. . While I do "get it " ... I'm not so fond of it... give me panorama or at least 3:2... It'S the golden rule... right!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted March 28, 2017 Author Share Posted March 28, 2017 Robt II 24x24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted March 28, 2017 Author Share Posted March 28, 2017 Robot Star 50 24x24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted March 28, 2017 Author Share Posted March 28, 2017 Robot Vollautomat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajmohan. Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Rick - I'm a square format junkie, and would love to get my hands on a Minolta 24 Rapid. Would you mind sharing where you obtained yours, and if you have any suggestions for where I should look? (A quick search of the big auction site and the web yielded no results). Thank you, Raj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted April 9, 2017 Author Share Posted April 9, 2017 Robot Royal model II Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted April 9, 2017 Author Share Posted April 9, 2017 Photavit 24x24 camera made in Germany Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted April 9, 2017 Author Share Posted April 9, 2017 Zeiss Ikon Tenax II Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted April 9, 2017 Author Share Posted April 9, 2017 Zeiss Ikon Tenax I 24x24 square format roll film camera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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