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Mikeguyver
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Username: Mikeguyver
Post Number: 24
Registered: 08-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 11:44 am: | 
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Just picked up a Bower-X 6x9/645 folding camera with a Vario shutter and Schneider-Kreuznach Radionar lens (no mask for 645). Did some research online and came up with a lot of current Bower products and very little info on the camera (two references on flikr). Does anyone have any info on this camera or where to go online.
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Chiccolini
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Username: Chiccolini
Post Number: 112
Registered: 06-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 05:40 pm: |
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The big bad collector book says circa 1951-58. Three models: I, II and 63. Comes in colors also. Likely the model 63 has an f6.3 lens. The pic. in the book shows a Prontor-sv shutter. Says it uses 620 film. Made in Germany of course. |
Mikeguyver
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Username: Mikeguyver
Post Number: 25
Registered: 08-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 24, 2010 - 05:59 am: |
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What big bad collector book are you referring to? |
Chiccolini
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Username: Chiccolini
Post Number: 113
Registered: 06-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 24, 2010 - 02:13 pm: |
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McKeown's Price Guide '96. The Bower-X also came in Burgundy color. Cool. Saw one of those once. |
Hanskerensky
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Username: Hanskerensky
Post Number: 51
Registered: 05-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 24, 2010 - 03:42 pm: |
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Could this be a brandlabeled camera ?
Saw somewhere on a forum somebody describing his folder as "A Franka Rolfix in Bower livery".
The German company Franka exported many of their folders brandlabeled, also to the U.S.
Their Rolfix is a 6x9 camera which could be adapted by a mask to 6x4,5 and could be equiped with a 4.5/105mm Schneider Radionar lens and also with a Vario shutter. |
Chiccolini
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Username: Chiccolini
Post Number: 115
Registered: 06-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 01, 2010 - 02:38 pm: |
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That is a possibility. Bower mostly made accessories in later years so it may have contracted out the cameras. |
