My medium format kit is complete. Last night I won an Agfa Isolette II.

These folders, well...fold. The make a very compact camera that will fit in a coat pocket. It's a 6x6 square format. Check out Agfa and Ansco Medium Format Folders, a practical view. This one is pretty dirty and will probably take some effort to make a user again but for $15.60 I can't go too wrong. While this one looks pretty dirty, check out what Jurgen does with them. If it proves too much for me I will send it off to Jurgen. He charges around $100 for a basic CLA with a new bellows. Fortunately there are a number of sites with information on working on these cameras: Agfa and Dismantling the Apotar Lens. Take a look at this one.

One of the drawbacks to the Isolette II is that it is a scale focus camera. You estimate the distance and then adjust the lens for that distance. The Isolette III has a rangefinder but it is uncoupled which means you still have to adjust the focus on the lens. In my searches for shutter cleaning, last night, I found this: Human Rangefinder Card Generator (with hyperfocal distance chart) v0.2. You enter in the pertinent information and it prints out a business size rangefinder card. One for the Isolette would look like this:

You hold the card at arms length. You close your right eye and line up the object you want to focus on at 0. Then you switch eyes and the object will jump to the right and where it lands is the proper distance that you adjust the lens for. How simple is that? It actually works. I'm going to print the Sunny 16 rule on it and I'm set.