Piccolette
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The Piccolette is a strut-folding camera for eight 4×6.5 cm exposures on 127 film. It was made from 1919 by Contessa-Nettel in Stuttgart, and continued by Zeiss-Ikon after the merger in 1926 in which Contessa-Nettel joined to form Zeiss Ikon. It was available with a simple meniscus lens and a simple shutter. Slightly better might have been the one with Piccar 1:11 lens and Piccar shutter. A better configuration yet was that with a Novar or Nettar Anastigmat 1:6.3/7.5cm lens and Derval shutter with speeds up to 1/100 sec. A version with faster Tessar lens, Compur shutter, turnable brilliant finder and sports finder was made from 1927 to 1930, the Piccolette Luxus. The Piccolette is more or less a copy of the Vest Pocket Kodak, and the camera was copied by Rokuo-sha as the Pearlette.
Links
- Piccolettes at at Early Photography:
- Piccolette, with an f/4.5 Tessar and dial-set Compur shutter.
- Piccolette de Luxe, with an f/6.4 Doppelanastigmat Citomar and dial-set compur shutter.
- Piccolette at Yon Yon Club
- Piccolette at Pacific Rim Camera
- Piccolette on Collection d'Appareils by Sylvain Halgand
