With the idea of doing some medium format B&W without the bulk and weight of the Bronica SQ-A, this nineteen fifties vintage folding camera was acquired. The camera was bought through certo6 who reconditions these nifty old cameras. Folded, this easily fits in a jacket pocket.

This example is equipped with a Color-Skopar 80 mm, f3.5, four-element Tessar-type lens set in a Prontor-S shutter. Provided shutter speeds are B(ulb) and 1 to 1/300 seconds. It takes twelve 6x6 cm frames (may be stretched to 13) on a roll of 120 film.

On the second row is a series showing how Ye Olde Photographer handled a request to take some black & white at his niece's evening outdoor wedding. (A challenging assignment as it turned out!)

At the third row are black & white shots selected from those taken on the first few rolls put through this camera to check it out: 1st, a roll of Ilford Delta 400 developed in HC-110 1+63. The last two shots on roll #1 were hand held, the others used a tripod.

Toward the bottom, several rows are from Roll #3, Fuji Neopan ACROS 100; also in HC-110 1+63. The closeup shots were on a tripod with the Focar 1 closeup lens. The farmstead shots were handheld. Some shots toward the bottom were taken on Fuji ACROS 100 in London, March 2008. And on the next to last row, just for grins, four color shots on Provia 100F transparency film, taken in Valley Forge National Historical Park. Some other shots toward the bottom were taken at Prallsville Mills, an historic site just north of Stockton, NJ, along the Delaware & Raritan Canal Trail, on 19 June 2008.

Perkeo shots elsewhere in the galleries: Lyons Fall Fiddle Festival, St. Nicholas Breaker, Jim Thorpe, Evansburg Park
See also the B&W shots at: Woodstock, Phoenixville, the 2010 Schuylkill River Festival, SRT Oaks to Mont Clare and at the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum.