#vagueira

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Vᥲgᥙᥱιrᥲ / Portᥙgᥲᥣ 🇵🇹

A while ago, I picked up a beautiful Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16 medium format folding camera for next to nothing from the Kamerastore website. It was cheap because it had, ‘flaws that will affect typical use.’ In this case, the ‘viewfinder has haze and fungus inside’. Otherwise, it was described as being in working condition. After a few weeks, I took it out with a roll of Lomochrome Turquoise, and…

Sometimes I pick up a camera that I’ve been really keen to get a hold of and then, when it arrives I’m already sidetracked with something else and the camera ends up ‘filed away’ for later use. The Bencini Koroll 2 medium format half-frame camera was one such example, and the Zeiss Ikon Nettar 518/16 is another. I have a fair number of cameras now, film and digital, from 110 to large format, but…