Peco Junior
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| 6.5x9cm Peco Junior image by Siim Vahur (Image rights) |
The Peco Junior is a monorail camera made by Plaubel from around 1958. It is largely made from aluminium. The front and rear standards are mounted on a wide, flat bar, with the 'rail' formed by two angled slots machined in it and the rack running along the top. The camera was made in two sizes:
- for 6.5x9cm plates, 6x9cm (2¼x3¼-in) roll film, or even 35mm roll-film back
- for 9x12cm, 10x15cm or 4x5-in plates (or reducing back for smaller sizes)
Notes at Historic Camera state that the smaller camera was introduced in 1958, and the larger one only in 1960.[1] A brochure from around 1960 shows the smaller camera with a simplified set of camera movements, with only linear movements (rise/fall and shift) on the front standard, and only tilt (about the bottom of the standard) and swing on the rear, while the larger model has both standards in conventional yokes, so has on-axis tilt and swing on both front and rear.[2] Another brochure (or short manual) of uncertain date but presumably later, shows only the smaller model of the camera,[3] and this is the more commonly seen camera. It seems likely that the 9x12cm camera was discontinued, at least under the Junior name.
Certainly, the specifications of the camera were changed, the later 6.5x9cm camera allowing more of most movements:
| 9x12cm (1960) |
6.5x9cm (1960) |
6.5x9cm (later) | |
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| Front rise, mm | 70 | 44 | 55 |
| Front fall, mm | 30 | 28 | 28 |
| Front shift, mm | 50 | 26 | 45 |
| Front tilt, ° | 20 | n/a | n/a |
| Front swing, ° | 45 | n/a | n/a |
| Rear tilt, ° | 20 | 25 | 35 |
| Rear swing, ° | 45 | 35 | 65 |
| Max. draw, mm (std. bellows) |
320 | 250 | 250 |
| Min. draw, mm (std. bellows) |
60 | 62 | 62 |
The camera has a reversing back (that is, the rear plate, to which the film or plate holder attaches, can be oriented for horizontal or vertical pictures by detaching it). Examples are seen with either black or red bellows. A wide-angle bag bellows was made for the camera.
Notes
- ↑ Brief notes on the Peco Junior at Historic Camera.
- ↑ Brochure about 1960 (the date given for the latest models illustrated) in German, showing pictures and brief details of several Peco models, including both sizes of the Junior, and showing the 9x12cm Junior with front and rear tilt/swing. At Camera Eccentric.
- ↑ 6.5x9cm Peco Jr. brochure also at Camera Eccentric.
Links
- Forum post Anybody here using the Plaubel Peco Junior? by user Nokton48 at Photrio fora. All the cameras illustrated are the smaller size.
- Brochure (or short manual) for the 6.5x9cm Peco Junior (the same document as cited above at Camera Eccentric), at Orphan Cameras.
- 6.5x9cm Peco Junior camera with large kit of lenses, roll-film backs (in sliding backs with focusing screen) and other accessories, sold at the nineteenth Westlicht Photographica Auction, in May 2011.
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