HELP, My dear Voigtlander Perkeo I will not shoot.

[vegard_dino]

It is fixed🙂

I am happy, my dear folder is back, working and taking photos.
Now, all I need is to be able to take good photos🙂

Thank you all for helping me, spesial thanks to you hanskerensky for great help .

Have a good day all.

 

[hanskerensky]

Ok, nice to hear. Good luck with the photos !

 

[vegard_dino]

Thank you.

Any tip on film? I mean, these is a old camera, made to be used with films that are not made today.
Witch film, ISO and so will fit these camera best?
I am looking to take B&W and slides.

 

[Godfrey]

Excellent photos of the Perkeo top cover and mechanism, Hans! How different is the Perkeo II?

Thank you.

Any tip on film? I mean, these is a old camera, made to be used with films that are not made today.
Witch film, ISO and so will fit these camera best?
I am looking to take B&W and slides.

I almost always stick to B&W with film cameras these days. I've shot mostly Fuji ACROS 100 and Ilford XP2 Super with the Perkeo II. The Color Skopar lens is good enough I'll try some Portra soon.

G

 

[vegard_dino]

Thanks for the tip.

 

[hanskerensky]

The Perkeo I lens has coating so you can use color film as well. Take a film with low ISO rating when shooting in sunny weather because top shutterspeed is not that high.
I prever Fuji Reala 100 120type Rollfilm. It's a film which scans easily.

 

[vegard_dino]

Thanks for the tip, I will try that film to.

 

[kuzano]

Perkeo I with Color Skopar 2 samples

Perkeo I with Color Skopar 2 samples

Here are a couple with my Color Skopar. Synchro Compur 1/500th Perkeo I:

 

[vegard_dino]

Oh, nice.
Thanks for showing.
Now, I am off to take some shots myself.

Happy Easter all.

 

[BW400CN]

The Perkeo I lens has coating so you can use color film as well. Take a film with low ISO rating when shooting in sunny weather because top shutterspeed is not that high.
I prever Fuji Reala 100 120type Rollfilm. It's a film which scans easily.

You can use the Fuji Reala even with uncoated pre-war lenses.
The old Skopar 4,5 10,5cm is good for color shoots too!



Voigtländer Avus 6x9 - Fuji Reala 100 von BW400CN auf Flickr

Just take care that you use a lens hood - on the 6,3 Voigtar 4,5 Skopar and 4,5 Heliar the Zeiss 1110 28,5 will fit - which is easily to find as an assesory for the Zeiss Contina or Contaflex.


Voigtländer Avus 6x9 von BW400CN auf Flickr

You can use the Zeiss S27 Filters too!

 

[KoNickon]

Resurrecting this older thread:

I just spent a surprisingly easy half hour or so fixing the double exposure prevention mechanism on my Perkeo I, thanks to Hans's Flickr set in post #19 above. I wanted to give credit where credit is due. Upon removing the top, I found that one of the springs controlling the mechanism, the one indicated by the green arrow in slide 15 of the Flickr set, had become unhooked. Small wonder that the mechanism would fail to disengage at random times, essentially making the camera unreliable and thus unusable. (I also found the clear covering for the "arrow" window (see post #15) under the top deck; that might have caused some jamming too.)

I found that the focus was off significantly at the film plane. This was an easy fix -- a matter of finding the correct infinity focus with a groundglass (matte finish Scotch tape, actually), loosening the three grub screws on the focusing ring, turning the focusing ring to infinity (while taking care to not turn the front element), and retightening the screws.

So because of the unreliability of the double exposure prevention mechanism and the bad focusing, I had basically shoved this camera into a box a few years ago. Now I plan to give it the fair chance it deserves!

 

[Solinar]

Congratulations on the resurrection. The Perkeo is the dwarf of medium format 6x6 cameras.

Best Regards,

 

[KoNickon]

Yup -- just took some 120 Plus-X out of the freezer and will give it a whirl.

I think "Perkeo" is a sprite or mischievous fairy in German lore, so the name is apt for the compact size of the camera. Native Germans on the forum please correct me if I'm wrong. (And hopefully I've cured mine of mischief.)

 

[hanskerensky]

Yup -- just took some 120 Plus-X out of the freezer and will give it a whirl.

I think "Perkeo" is a sprite or mischievous fairy in German lore, so the name is apt for the compact size of the camera. Native Germans on the forum please correct me if I'm wrong. (And hopefully I've cured mine of mischief.)

Well, i am not a native German either but here is what i read.
According to the book of Claus Prochnow, Voigtländer Report 3, page 35-873 it is Voigtländer self which wrote in a 1954 brochure that the name "Perkeo" was after a dwarf which was a jester at the court of the Pfals kingdom around 1720. He was small but very sturdy.

Have fun shooting your Perkeo ! They are small but indeed deliver great quality images !

 

[KoNickon]

Thanks for the correction, Hans. If I had bothered to look it up I probably would have gotten the story straight.

I'm now pondering getting one of the Voigtlander rangefinders. There's one in a store near me, but they'll probably want too much for it. I rationalize it by thinking I can use it for my Vito B and Bessa I also.

 

[hanskerensky]

I'm now pondering getting one of the Voigtlander rangefinders. There's one in a store near me, but they'll probably want too much for it. I rationalize it by thinking I can use it for my Vito B and Bessa I also.

They can indeed be quite expensive. It might be worth to consider a good working clip-on rangefinder like this Telex on one of my cameras :


Agfa Isolette L on Display (01) by Hans Kerensky, on Flickr

 

[BobBill]

Nice rig, will look for finder -- and lens shade...I like.