Welta Penti
Welta Penti 2, made in the German Democratic Republic from 1961-1977. The Penti is a half frame viewfinder with a Meyer Domiplan lens (earlier versions had a Trioplan).
The camera has a selenium meter (the one in this baby still works). The woven basket look on the cambered front and rear plates comes in gold or silver; the frame is painted black or more rarely, in other colours. Mine is cream-and-gold coloured.
Aperture, exposure time and focus are set by the tabs on the lens barrel. After shutter release, a metal plunger pops out from the left hand side of the camera. Pushing the plunger back in advances the film and cocks the shutter.
The camera does not take standard 35 mm cartridges but requires Orwo SL *Schnell-Lade" (quick loading) cassettes that are no longer being made. Agfa Rapid type cassettes should also work, but those are also no longer being made.
The solution is to obtain two cassettes and to fill one with 60 cm of unexposed 35 mm film in a dark room. The camera can shoot 24 half-frame images, during which the film strip is moved to the other cassette by the film advance mechanism.
Shot with:
Rolleiflex SL66 ("The 666")
Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm 1:2.8
Type 120 roll film, Kodak Portra 800 professional grade colour negative film, exposed at ISO 500
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
Welta Penti
Welta Penti 2, made in the German Democratic Republic from 1961-1977. The Penti is a half frame viewfinder with a Meyer Domiplan lens (earlier versions had a Trioplan).
The camera has a selenium meter (the one in this baby still works). The woven basket look on the cambered front and rear plates comes in gold or silver; the frame is painted black or more rarely, in other colours. Mine is cream-and-gold coloured.
Aperture, exposure time and focus are set by the tabs on the lens barrel. After shutter release, a metal plunger pops out from the left hand side of the camera. Pushing the plunger back in advances the film and cocks the shutter.
The camera does not take standard 35 mm cartridges but requires Orwo SL *Schnell-Lade" (quick loading) cassettes that are no longer being made. Agfa Rapid type cassettes should also work, but those are also no longer being made.
The solution is to obtain two cassettes and to fill one with 60 cm of unexposed 35 mm film in a dark room. The camera can shoot 24 half-frame images, during which the film strip is moved to the other cassette by the film advance mechanism.
Shot with:
Rolleiflex SL66 ("The 666")
Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm 1:2.8
Type 120 roll film, Kodak Portra 800 professional grade colour negative film, exposed at ISO 500
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de