This photograph was taken with a Baldi 29, my first half serious camera bought second hand in 1965.
Balda was a German maker based in Dresden, founded in 1908. Baldix cameras were a series of self-erecting folding cameras derived from the Baldax series. The cameras made 6x6cm exposures on 120 roll film. The Baldix was like the post-war Baldax without the frame counter. The Mess-Baldix had the additional mechanical frame counter, and an uncoupled rangefinder. The Baldi 29 was a later, cheaper model based on the same body, with a more rounded top housing and an f 2.9 lens, hence the name. Models that were still available in 1959–60.
Negative was scanned at 4800 dpi on Epson Perfection 4870 scanner and adjusted in Lightroom.
Photo: Sue Hassel and Andrea Parry, Blackwood, Wales, April 1966