✅ Ernemann Bob 00 6 x 9 Folding Rollfilm Camera - Working

Camera body is in very good cosmetic condition with signs of use commensurate with its age, but please check photos to satisfy yourself before bidding as they are part of the description.

Camera is fully functional. Shutter fires at all speeds (not tested for accuracy but slow speeds do seem a bit slow). Aperture blades move freely.

Lens is in good condition, but there are very fine fungus lines visible in torch light on two of the elements. It may be possible to remove these but can’t say for sure.

Not film tested.

History:

The Ernemann Bob 00 is a multi-format folding camera introduced in 1914 by Ernemann-Werke AG. Founded by Heinrich Ernemann in 1889, Ernemann produced both still and cinema cameras as well as film projectors. After its defeat in the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to pay 132 billion marks in reparations (about 442 billion USD in today’s economy, a mind-blowing sum they spent nearly a century repaying) which laid waste to their national economy. The German camera industry was not spared during this period of hyperinflation and Ernemann was forced to merge with three other companies (ICA, Goerz, and Contessa-Nettel) to form Zeiss Ikon.

There are roughly two dozen different camera models and variants produced during the earliest years of the 20th century until the 1920s that use Ernemann’s “Bob” moniker. Nearly all of them are folding cameras and accept a wide variety of rollfilm and plate formats including several large format stereo folding cameras.