Pecoflex
The Pecoflex is an SLR camera for up to 9x9cm exposures, but commonly used for 6x9cm exposures on sheet or roll film, made by Plaubel from about 1961. The body of the camera is esssentially a Makiflex, but with the body and front standard mounted on a monorail, allowing camera movements at the front. In fact, the cameras are so much the same that Plaubel offered a monorail adapter to give the more flexible front to a Makiflex body.[1] The Pecoflex might be seen as giving the benefits of a focal-plane shutter to the monorail Peco Junior, though that camera only has rise and shift at the front, with tilt and swing at the rear, so the front standard is rather different.
The camera has a focal-plane shutter with speeds from 4 seconds to 1/500 second, and with a counter showing the number of times it has been released. A contemporary brochure offered the following lenses:
- In Automatic shutter ('Automatic' refers to the aperture, stopped down by a double release cable when the shutter is released):
- 150mm f/4.5 Xenar
- 150mm f/4.5 Apo-Lanthar
- 150mm f/2.8 Xenotar
- 210mm f/4.5 Xenar
- 270mm f/5.5 Tele-Arton
- 360mm f/5.5 Tele-Xenar
- Non-automatic:
- 200mm f/5.8 Imagon (soft-focus lens)
One of the examples linked below has a 180mm Xenar, also in Automatic shutter.
At the rear, the camera has a reversing back. It can be adapted for smaller film formats (6x6cm or 4.5x6cm) or plates including 6.5x9cm.
Notes
- ↑ Makiflex with 'Pecoflex adapter'; a post by Daniel Unkefer at the Large Format Photography Forum (post 3264 (!) of the thread Show off your Large Format camera).
Links
- Pecoflex with 150mm and 210mm f/4.5 Xenars in Automatic shutters, sold at the 28th Westlicht Auction, in November 2015.
- Pecoflex with 180mm f/4.5 Xenar in Automatic shutter, sold by Flints Auctions in May 2023.
