THE beautifully engineered Zeiss Ikon Nettar and Signal Nettar folding cameras made between 1951 and 1960 are among the most effective folding cameras using 120 film ever made, and are still an inexpensive and highly portable way into medium-format film photography. People who have never used them trot out the routine criticism of the three-element Novar lenses as not being up to the job. However, my experience over several decades is that inadequate results from Novar lenses are more often the result of cameras wrongly set up after amateur servicing, rather than of any fault in the lenses themselves.
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