Serial Number: Cam0113
Type:
Folding Bed Camera
Manufacturer:
Contessa Nettel
Country of Origin:
Germany
Production Period:
1914 - 1926
Approximate Price:
US Dollars 500.00
Reference:
camerapedia.wikia.com
Status: Display
Description:
The Piccolette is range of cameras made by Nettel in Stuttgart and its successor companies Contessa-Nettel and Zeiss Ikon. The Piccolette was first made by Nettel, the company which became Contessa-Nettel, as a folding-bed camera for 4x6.5 cm exposures on rollfilm, from 1914. This camera was available with various lenses, including Nettel's own Anastigmat or Rapid Aplanat, and Pronto or Compound shutter. It has radial lever focusing on the bed. The Piccolette is best-known as a strut-folding camera for eight 4×6.5 cm exposures on 127 film, 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. Production seems to have eased in 1930 or 1931. The total production is unclear at this point. The Piccolette is a very close design adaptation of the Vest Pocket Kodak of 1912; the main differences are a fully-fledged film carrier attached to the removable bottom-plate ensuring that the film vcan be inserted correctly, and the curved wrap-around lower part of the front standard. The Piccolette itself was directly copied in 1925 by Rokuoh Sha as the Pearlette, which in turn was copied by Fuji K?gaku as the Dianette and Pionette around 1936 .
