{"id":2673,"date":"2020-08-07T08:52:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T08:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2020-09-30T08:47:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T08:47:32","slug":"perfekta-1953-1957-box-camera-photomuse-collection-2014-donation-of-dr-unni-krishnan-pulikkal-source-herbert-ascherman-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/2020\/08\/07\/perfekta-1953-1957-box-camera-photomuse-collection-2014-donation-of-dr-unni-krishnan-pulikkal-source-herbert-ascherman-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfekta, 1953-1957, Box Camera, PhotoMuse Collection, 2014, Donation of Dr. Unni Krishnan Pulikkal, Source &#8211; Herbert Ascherman Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Perfekta\u00a0is a\u00a0Bakelite\u00a06 x 6\u00a0120 film\u00a0fixed-focus box camera made by\u00a0VEB Rheinmetall\u00a0in former East Germany. The camera body was made in black Bakelite with cream-coloured controls. The original model of this Perfekta has a flip-up frame finder. The lens is an 80 mm f\/7.7\u00a0achromat lens.\u00a0There is an aperture control knob below the lens giving f\/7.7, f\/11 and f\/16.\u00a0A second knob on the side of the boxy lens housing selects between &#8216;B&#8217; and &#8216;I\/M&#8217; shutter.\u00a0The shutter-release is a button below the lens opposite the aperture knob. A red frame counter window is placed in the center of the back and can be closed by turning a small plastic knob. The shutter speed selector also carries a number &#8216;1&#8217; inside a triangle and the company number: 37\/286\/0000. Total production of the Perfekta was\u00a01,026,000 units.\u00a0The Perfekta is a good example of the persistence of the \u2018Streamline Moderne\u2019 style in the 1950s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Perfekta\u00a0is a\u00a0Bakelite\u00a06 x 6\u00a0120 film\u00a0fixed-focus box camera made by\u00a0VEB Rheinmetall\u00a0in former East Germany. The camera body was made in black Bakelite with cream-coloured controls. The original model of this Perfekta has a flip-up frame finder. The lens is an 80 mm f\/7.7\u00a0achromat lens.\u00a0There is an aperture control knob below the lens giving f\/7.7, f\/11 and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2897,"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions\/2897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}