Vintage Voightlander Bessa II 120 Roll Film Camera for sale in Denver, Colorado

$200

I am offering my Vintage Voightlander Camera. It is a Bessa II, it is in wonderful condition, it still shoots! It takes 120 roll movie (easily discovered). It is clean and from a non cigarette smoking home.

The vital stuff:.
CASH MONEY ONLY, NO CHECKS OR MONEY ORDERS.
NO NIGERIAN PRINCES.
SERIOUS BUYERS ONLY, DO N'T WASTE MY TIME IF YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED.
REGIONAL PICKUP ONLY, NO SHIPPING !!!
200$ obo.

This is merely the crme de la crme of 69 folders. It has charm, style, superb optics, an integrated rangefinder, vaunted Voigtlnder quality ... this is great stuff. Early models did not have an accessory shoe. Only the last model (1956) had the mask for also shooting 64.5. Bessa II's usually come with either the Color-Skopar or Color-Heliar f3.5 / 105mm lenses, more rarely with the APO-Lanthar. The Apo-Lanthar lens is so uncommon that if you see one, it will certainly cost a king's ransom ... to the tune of upwards of $1500!

Focusing is by turning a focus wheel with your left hand on the top left ... the entire lens / shutter assembly transfers to concentrate, like a view electronic camera. Only a handful of folders would focus in this manner, the majority of merely rotated the front lens element to achieve focus. That's not a lower method as the majority of optics today focus that means. On a folder, the Voigtlnder (and Super Isolette, Certo Six, Iskra, Super Baldax, Mamiya 6) this method of focus appears to be a little more precise. I'm thinking folks, I'm not an optical engineer!

The Bessa optics are very first rate, no matter if talking about the 3 element Vaskar, 4 element Color-Skopar, 5 element Color-Heliar, or the 6 element APO-Lanthar. Is a 3 element lens not as good as a 4 aspect design? Logic seems to state that's real. HOWEVER, I have actually received emails from USERS (!!!!), not the "coffee-table" crowd with their MTF charts, and so on-- who advocate the quality of their 3 aspect Apotars, Novars, Vaskars, and so on. I even had one customer (a semi-professional photographer) who had purchased both a Vaskar Bessa I AND a Color-Heliar Bessa II. He sent me photos to verify that HIS VASKAR outshined HIS Color-Heliar. It is possible!

Shutters on a Bessa II are constantly either a Compur-Rapid or, the Synchro-Compur. On this video camera the C-R shutter goes to 1/400th while the S-C goes to 1/500th sec. The other difference is that the S-C shutter has a switch to choose whether you're using flash bulbs or electronic flash. The C-R is just synched for whatever you connect to the COMPUTER post. Another indicate make, specifically after 50 years ... NO Synchro-Compur or Compur-Rapid has a top speed of 1/400th or 1/500th sec. EVERY single one I've had in the store checked out on an electric shutter tester, at a little better that 1/350th sec ... about exactly what the average Prontor S family of shutters will do.

In my own experience, both the Bessa I and Bessa II are deserving of the reputation that they have. The Bessa II is a bit pricy, however you get commensurate quality, built-in rangefinder, and outstanding optics in the bargain. With the Bessa I you get an outstanding build quality with outstanding optics ..."even" if it is "only" the UNDERRATED VASKAR!'.

source: /cameras/voigtlaender-bessa.


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