There is no sense in using a folder if the results were not up to par with the more convenient cameras - unless, of course, one is using a folder just for a retro look or for sheer eccentricity.
Si tu id aeficas, ei venient.





The human eye sees,the finger moves,
the shutter eye blinks behind its cold lens and light explodes against the film.
Then the moment is gone...

But locked now in chemical memory is a recollection of it, a fragment of time waiting to be coaxed back into two-dimensional existence, a paper thin proof that something happened, that somebody was. Surely there is a little more to most photography than that-a chain of simple, physical events triggered by a brain's desire to make the time stand still. Yet, beyond the simplicity of its making, the image fixed by man and camera burns with a meaning and an immortality of its own.....


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During the during the years 1955-late 1959 KMZ (Krasnogorsky Mehanichesky Zavod- the Krasnogorsk mechanical factory, located in Krasnogorsk City nearMoskow) made an improvement of the legendary Zeiss Ikon Ikonta C amongst others. After WW II The Russians confiscated the plans, drawings, machines etc from Zeiss Ikon and brought it home. (Remark: According International Laws) Production started around '46, thus there are no pre-war Mockva's!