Vintage Certo-Phot 120 medium format camera

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Seller: glbreidscheid ✉️ (422) 100%, Location: Huntingdon, GB, Ships to: GB & many other countries, Item: 192103668977 Vintage Certo-Phot 120 medium format camera.

One for anyone collecting really obscure medium format cameras I reckon.

This super rare Cero-Phot is a medium format viewfinder camera that was manufactured by Certo Kamera Werk in Dresden, former Eastern Germany. The camera was introduced 1958.

This is one of the original early models as evidenced by the metal re-wind know. The later ones were plastic.

It takes 6cm x 6cm photos on the still readily available 120 film format. I have too many cameras and have never actually got around to using this one to take any photos. But it seems to be working OK.

The camera is sturdily built from metal but in terms of how it works, it’s pretty basic.

You can select 2 apertures either f8 or f11 and 2 shutter speeds M and B. B does it's thing as you'd expect and the M shutter speed fires OK but sounds on the slow side, so a steady hand or better still a tripod will be the order of the day.

The focus can be adjusted between 5 meters and infinity by turning the simple meniscus type lens.

According to camerapedia, the Certo-Phot wass an evolution model of Certina.

Condition-wise, this camera is really good. There is a sort of glue residue mark on the top of the rewind knob, where there obviously used to be a cover to hide the retaining screw. It has seemingly fallen off some time in the past 60 years, but is only a cosmetic item and nothing to do with the function of the camera. The camera is missing one strap lug. Other than that the camera is in almost pristine condition with just a couple of tiny marks.

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