Anybody Here Using the Plaubel Peco Junior?

JPD · Mar 20, 2024

Nokton48 said:
Plaubel Suprocomar 100mm F2.9 by Nokton48, on Flickr

This is coming to me from the Ukraine. The Plaubel 100mm Suprocomar F2.9 in Compur shutter. Plan to use it on my Plaubel Peco Juniors. Is anybody here familiar with this lens, I have several Anticomars and like them. Is this off of an olde Plaubel Folding camera??

It's a 3,9. It's been seen on a couple of KW Patent Etui 6,5x9 cameras.

nosmok · Mar 21, 2024

I know, and you probably do too, that the faster (f/2.0 as opposed to f/2.7) lens available on the Makinette 3x4cm 127 film camera was also called a Supracomar, but not sure if there is any connection between the lenses (as JPD alludes, I have a 6x9 Patent Etui with a Plaubel lens on it, but it's an Anticomar f/4.2 iirc).

Nokton48 · Mar 21, 2024

JPD and Nosmok,

Thanks for your comments. My bad LOL, it's a f3.9 lens, I have two 100mm F2.9 Anticomars; one on my Makina II, and one for my Makina IIIR. I also have a 100mm F4.2 Anticomar that is sharp as a razor, and also a 150mm F4.2 Anticomar. Collecting Plaubel is fun, almost like hunting for buried treasure

I hope this one has a socket for cable release ! LOL

JPD · Mar 24, 2024

There is a Patent Etui with the 3,9/10cm Supracomar on eBay, and one of the photos is of an article about this lens: https://www.ebay.de/itm/123774055192

"Das Supracomar wurde nur in wenigen Exemplaren gefertigt (Versuchsserie) für die Umstellung des 3-linsigen Anticomar (1:4,2 - 1936/37) auf den 4-linsigen Tessar-Typ, speziell für Farbtauglichkeit (1929/30). Nur ganz wenige Makinas wurden mit dem Supracomar ausgestattet. Danach folgte das Anticomar 1:2,9 mit 4-Linsen."

This Supracomar is therefore most likely a four element Tessar type. And about 50 were used on the Patent Etui.

Nokton48 · Mar 24, 2024

Thank You JPD !

Translation:

The Supracomar was only manufactured in a few copies (test series) to convert the 3-lens Anticomar (1:4.2 - 1936/37) to the 4-lens Tessar type, especially for color suitability (1929/30). Only very few Makinas were equipped with the Supracomar. This was followed by the Anticomar 1:2.9 with 4 lenses

Nokton48 · Apr 11, 2024

100mm F3.9 Supracomar Plaubel Peco Junior Sawed Off Baggy Bellows by Nokton48, on Flickr

The 100mm F3.9 Plaubel Supracomar arrived from the Ukraine. The lens glass is clean and unmarked, the shutter is good and right on. It's got a patina but I like that Shown on my "Sawed-Off" Plaubel Peco Junior, with Peco Bag Bellows and Makina Style Back, with wonderful swiveling rear. I can see the entire screen with clarity and brightness. Love it. The Supracomar is focused at about three meters, so close-up. Leica-like quality from Peco Jr adds to my enjoyment. The view is very sharp, contrasty (not flary like the Anticomars), with a "plastic" like rendition really pleasing. I think the lens was calculated to cover 9x12cm, so I am only using the sweet smaller center of the optic. FANTASTIC rendition, love it. This will get some good use if spring ever gets here. Small enough to be used handheld, and I do have a digital back for this camera. Hmmm

Nokton48 · May 14, 2024

Sawed Off Plaubel Peco Jr 100mm F2.9 Suprocomar F4.5 Nex C3 Digital Back by Nokton48, on Flickr

Looks very sharp, a bit flary (like my Orthometars too, I kind of like that). Lovely Bokeh shot at F4.5 to increase DOF a bit and lens shpuld be better one stop down. Very pleasant rendition. Plaubel Peco Junior Mini-Me View Camera, with Sony Nex-C3 Digital Back homemade by me. 1/160 sec not bad with a 100mm lens. I bought this recently from the Ukraine, I'll be shooting with it this season I'm sure. Should be good with Ortho and Pan B&W too. Camera was handheld.

Nokton48 · Dec 15, 2024

APSC Sony Nex C3 JB Welded to Peco Rear Standard Plate by Nokton48, on Flickr

I bought this Nex C3 16mp Body for Fifty Bucks at World of Photography. Then I JB Welded it to a flat scrap black metal Plaubel Plate from my junk box. Then JB Welded the flat plate/APSC Back to a flat revesible Peco Junior Rear Plate. VOILA! "Poor Man's Medium Format Digital Back". Great for testing and trying different OLDE lenses. This one is historically interesting, it was on the cover of the Peco Junior literature I have. It's the Plaubel 150mm F4.2 Orthometar, it takes the stock Plaubel Makina Hood on the front. So fully tricked out for digital fun. I finished this with a rubber magnifying Nex 3 hood $10 from Ebay.

ivan35mm · Mar 25, 2025

As someone who just picked up their first Peco Junior, this thread has been incredibly enlightening!

Looking forward to more of your continuous updates, and even contributing in the near future. cheers

Nokton48 · 2025-04-15T12:39:42-0400

ivan35mm said:
As someone who just picked up their first Peco Junior, this thread has been incredibly enlightening!

Looking forward to more of your continuous updates, and even contributing in the near future. cheers

Thanks for your comments. Congrats on finding a good Peco Junior; I have a lot of upcoming plans regarding several personal projects coming up using my two PJ's. That is, if it EVER warms up around here! LOL

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