Perking up the Perkeo
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2022 5:20 pm
After several years of storage, the little Perkeo went on a walk in Punta del Este harbor, a large place which is chock full of expensive yachts in the summer. Temperature was about 95 F, too warm even for our summer.
I like this little folder because of its very compact size, simplicity and that Voigtlander smoothness; have used it as a travel film camera. Pleasure starts already when loading film, with the cool swinging supports for the film roll and the take-up spool.
My Perkeo has a Vaskar triplet which is not bad at f/8 and below. Look at these full-size and cropped examples. I shot almost all the FP4+ roll at 1/300 in f/11.
Can you read the dials?
Detail of the far-away group in the top right.
A couple more frames from the roll, portraits of the fishing vessels moored in their harbor section.
I botched a frame because of incomplete winding (age takes its toll) but anyway half of it came out. This was at f/5.6.
Developed in home-made D-23 1:1, first time I use this mix.
I like this little folder because of its very compact size, simplicity and that Voigtlander smoothness; have used it as a travel film camera. Pleasure starts already when loading film, with the cool swinging supports for the film roll and the take-up spool.
My Perkeo has a Vaskar triplet which is not bad at f/8 and below. Look at these full-size and cropped examples. I shot almost all the FP4+ roll at 1/300 in f/11.
Can you read the dials?
Detail of the far-away group in the top right.
A couple more frames from the roll, portraits of the fishing vessels moored in their harbor section.
I botched a frame because of incomplete winding (age takes its toll) but anyway half of it came out. This was at f/5.6.
Developed in home-made D-23 1:1, first time I use this mix.