Near mint! 1951 6x6 Voigtlander Perkeo II, CLA’d, Freshly Serviced!

Cleaned, Lubricated & Adjusted. Ready for immediate use

Nikon F4 NOT included

This is a lovely, very compact, high quality Voigtlander Perkeo II 6x6 camera built in circa 1951. Extremely popular with owners, users and collectors, few are willing to give them up. Folded up it slides easily into a pocket. Unfolded it takes beautiful 6x6 exposures on 120 roll film. Bright exposures alive with all the vivid details and rich colors that only medium format can provide. When it comes to photography, bigger is better and this camera will produce a negative that’s more than four times larger than the average 35mm snapshot. So whether you’re interested in large prints, fine grain, rich tonal gradations or lovely colors, this camera will do all of that and may just become your favorite photographic companion. Its friendly size will never give you a reason to leave it at home. It’s one of the smallest 6x6 cameras ever made. It’s dwarfed by a typical 35mm SLR camera. So it’s no wonder that Voigtlander named this model the “Perkeo”, which is German for pygmy or dwarf.

This camera can shoot beautiful photos quickly too because it has a unique auto-stop film counter. Basically after film is loaded, you just turn the film advance knob until it stops and you’re ready to cock, compose and shoot. This means you won’t be slowed down, searching for numbers through a little red ruby window.  (This is an improved feature for the Perkeo II, which is something the original Perkeo didn’t have.) In fact auto-stop winding was quite usual for a folding camera and when available it was only present in high end cameras.

The genuine, rich Moroccan leather is very lovely. The bellows are supple and are light tight. Additionally this camera has been carefully cleaned, lubricated & adjusted and it works very well.

It has a dependable Prontor shutter and all speeds  are appropriate. The slow speeds buzz along nicely and the fast ones are clean and snappy. This shutter is flash synched and it works with a normal electronic flash. It’s been tested and a flash will fire correctly at any desired shutter speed. (This is of course a very convenient feature for flash fill.)

The lens is a coated f4.5/75mm Vaskar (serial no. 3154799). It’s an excellent three element design based on the classic Cooke triplet and well known for its lovely rendition and attractive background bokeh. The lens is also in exceptionally fine condition and looks like new. There are no scratches, no cleaning marks and it’s capable of producing lovely photos modern color and B&W films.

All in all a very fine camera. It’s the perfect photographic companion for that perfect shot you’ve been looking for. You know the one… the one with the perfect Ansel Adams light breaking through the dark clouds that leaves you wishing you had a medium format camera with you.