Kodak Vest Pocket Model B

[motosacto]

How about a 127 folder?

I reinvigorated my grandmother's old Kodak Vest Pocket Model B by having Jurgen Kreckel replace the disintegrated paper bellows (don't ask how much it cost). I just ran a roll of Efke 100 through it to see if it works. These pictures were taken early in April 2007 in the Sacramento area. I scanned a contact sheet, dust and all, and put the better shots into a little web page:

http://www.westerickson.net/vestpocketmodelb

 

[350D_user]

I'm beginning to dislike this forum. The VPK is another camera I've not used, and currently in my collection (2 of, iirc).

An interesting three photos you have from the VPK. 🙂

 

[motosacto]

I'm beginning to dislike this forum. The VPK is another camera I've not used, and currently in my collection (2 of, iirc).

An interesting three photos you have from the VPK. 🙂

Sorry to contribute to your dislike 🙂

The Vest Pocket B is a great camera if used right--point it at classic architecture, take pictures like people did back in the 1930's, and it's like a tiny time machine.

 

[puderse]

You can find VPK's with quality focusing lenses & good shutters! Finding that and a good bellows may be a problem.

 

[sepiareverb]

Mine needs a shutter. Otherwise a beaut. Its a Vest Pocket Kodak Autographic, 127 film. Would love to get the shutter going again to play with it. I had borrowed one many years ago and got some great fun with it- that 30's look for sure.
This one came to me in a box of old photo stuff at a yard sale- $50 for the lot. Got a great 168mm Dagor for the 810 out of it, and sold the old view camera that was in there- all ivory & mahogany & brass & silk & leather for $325. Case has lost it's strap and snap, but isn't flaking or rusting, and the camera looks almost unused.

 

[John Shriver]

They are an amazing combination of small camera and large negative. (But not that light weight.) Portra 160NC and 400NC films are great, to boot. (Both available in 46mm for a little while longer.)

I've got the original trellis strut "Special" model with a focusing Kodak Anastigmat f/7.7.

 

[collergeo]

Re: Kodak Vest Pocket Model B

Everyone has its own taste and choice. Each camera has got different features and different results. It would have been better if you had put some pictures here. Sometimes the paper quality also affects the final output of the photo. One cannot blame the camera all the time. By the way, I’m also a Kodak user. It’s working pretty well for me.