Voigtlander Bessa66 Folding Bellows Medium Format 120 Roll film camera 1930's

The Bessa folder was the first production model of the Bessa line, produced between 1929 and 1956. It is a medium-format folder that uses 120 film to produce 6×9cm or, in some versions with the use of a frame mask, 4.5×6cm photographs. It is the best known and the best selling of all the Voigtländer cameras; it is estimated that as many as 575,000 of the folders were made. The first self-erecting folder offered by Voigtländer, the Bessa was produced with four different lens types: Voigtar, Vaskar, Skopar, and the Color Skopar. There were also three shutter options: Prontor, Compur, and Compur Rapid. Identifying which options are present in the camera is usually done by inspecting the inner lens ring and the outer lens ring, or by year of production.