Dolly Vest Pocket

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Certo Dolly (4×6.5cm), image by Dustin McAmera (Image rights)

The Dolly Vest Pocket is a folding camera for 127 film made in the 1930s by Certo in Germany. It's diminutive size (115mm x 85mm x 32mm when folded), large negative size, and sharp lens make it a surprisingly good performer.

Note the extra lines on the viewfinder lens, for 3x4cm images when using a mask.

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Dolly Vest Pocket in a Certo catalogue. (Image rights)

specifications

  • Type: folding camera
  • Manufacturer: Certo
  • Years of launch: 1930s
  • Film: type 127 film rolls
  • Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 1:3.5 F=7cm or Ica Novar Anastigmat 1:6.8 F=7.5cm
  • Shutter: Compur with speeds from 1 sec. to 1/300 sec. plus T and B mode
  • Focusing: 1.4 metre to infinity by focusing ring around shutter, or focusing lever for simple bellows extension focusing
  • Viewfinders: collapsible reverse Galilean optical finder with additional frame bars for smaller format
  • Frame size: exchangeable frames for 4x6.5 cm and 4x3 cm
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