Last summer I got very lucky at an auction where I managed to acquire a Minolta Autocord and a bunch of other cameras for only 400SEK (that’s about $60 USD). In the box was also a Nikon FE2, Polaroid Land Camera 101 as well as a Contaflex II. All in super nice condition. There was also a Canon FTb or something, but that one was i terrible shape. Furthermore there were tons of different accessories.

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For Christmas this year my fantastic girlfriend bought me a Zeiss Ikon Nettar 516/2. “What is this?”, you might ask. And it’s a good question indeed. The Nettar 516/2 is, from what I’ve gathered, one of the rarest models in the Nettar series. A series of folding cameras produced by Zeiss Ikon during the 1930’s and 1940’s. It takes 120 film which is still wildly available today! This particular model was produced around 1938 in Stuttgart, Germany.

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