Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/2
The Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/2 is a medium format 6×9 folding camera from around 1951. After all these years the simple Vario shutter still provides its 1/200, 1/75, 1/25 and bulb shutter speeds reliably. The lens is a 105mm f 6.3 Novar Anastigmat which provides good image quality in the center of the frame and decent quality around that when the aperture is stopped down to around f11. Wide open the lens creates a particular look that tends toward an old large format appearance or at least as close as you can approximate with a medium format camera. The 6cm x 9cm negative is roughly 6.5 times as large as a 35mm film negative. With a maximum shutter speed of 1/200sec though care needs to be taken not to intruduce camera shake. Also the shutter is out there at the end of the bellows with no double exposure prevention making it a good camera for doing multiple exposures.
