Collectors Camera - Balda Super Matic - Made in Germany

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Balda cameras and photo accessories were first manufactured in Germany by Balda-Werk of Dresden, a company founded by Max Baldeweg in 1908.

The firm began producing glass negative plate and roll-film cameras in the 1920s. The Nr.1 Balda-Kamera of 1925 was a folding bellows camera for 9X12cm format. It was followed by a model for 10X15cm and two more 9X12cm models with rack and pinion focus and double extension bellows. In the 1930s, Balda also produced a wide range of small format folding cameras with names like Jubilette, Lisette and Super Baldina. 

After World War II, the Dresden factory business was absorbed into VEB Pentacon and Balda Kamera-Werk moved production to Bunde in West Germany where, in the 1950s, it began to market the well known range of 35mm and 120 film format folding bellows cameras such as the Baldalette with Carl Zeiss Tessar lens and Compur Rapid shutter.

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