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Shooting film with a 70-year-old medium format camera.
The Plaubel Makina III is a rare vintage folding medium format rangefinder camera.

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Shooting film with a 70-year-old medium format camera.

The Plaubel Makina III is a rare vintage folding medium format rangefinder camera.
it was made in Germany just after the war and it looks like a tank.

It's a beautiful camera but as you will see in this video its not so easy to use.


You can find a used Makina for between 500 to 1000 euros on the Kamerastore website.

Collectors Love plaubel cameras due to their high quality, excellent performance, and history.


Plaubel Makinas were commonly used by press photographers
Lens : Anticomar 2.9/100, closest focus 1.5 m, F 2.9 - 22

The Makina III uses a coupled rangefinder so you focus by a mix of guessing the right distance and checking in the tiny rangefinder.

this slider corrects parallax when shooting closeups

fine focus is controlled by this wheel on the camera’s left side

120 roll film back for 6cm x 9cm images

This lever is the cocking lever for the Compur shutter.

the frame counter is cool looking but its easy to forget to turn it between two captures ... and you will see that i forgot to do it a lot ;...

This camera is a bit intimidating for a modern photographer it looks so solid and fragile at the same time.

I shot two rolls of 120 film in the Plaubel.
I did all the light mettering on an app on my phone.

For my first shot I pressed the shutter the wrong way, and it took one exposure
then i took the photo i wanted to make, but the result was a double exposure.
so First try was a fail.

on the second photo, well i did the same mistake again ... but at least my focusing was good.

Now that i understood my mistake I did a third try but this time ... i miscalculated the exposure time on my phone.
MMM ...


Finally I manage to shoot one good pic, no dobule exposure, sharp and clean

IN the Lab they told me that those weird dots were not because of the camera but because of the lomography film that has a very week paperback.

After some time i managed to shoot some clean images. far from perfect but for a 70 year old camera i was pretty impressed by the results.

As i am a begginer in film photography I was pretty happy with what i got from this camera.

I hope Camera rescue will send me more weird vintage camera to practice so i can do a better job next time.