Δευτέρα 10 Δεκεμβρίου 2012

Kiev 4am, my 3rd copy

I bought this Kiev 4AM mainly because it had the Helios 103 53mm/f1.8 lens.
It has no selenium meter, it's full manual. The camera is a later model and needs a twist of the bottom lever to roll back the film, instead of the usual bottom buttom.



There was film in it, a Konica 100 ASA and I finished it.

These are the photos:
I got some underexposed photos from the previous owner

these are mine









Δευτέρα 3 Δεκεμβρίου 2012

Fuji Instax 7s



The Fuji Instax 7s takes the Fuji Mini Instax instant film and delivers 10 prints in the size of a cradit card.
It is a very simple camera with a 60mm lens that looks like a wide angle 35mm focal length in the 35mm equivalent system. It has a depth of field from 60cm to Infinity.


It takes 4 AA batteries and is powered on by pulling out the lens. There is only a selection of exposures, (indoors, cloudy, sunny, very sunny). The flash is always on, and is nice for contre jour pictures. It seems to me that it overexposes at outdoors, so maybe a faster setting is required, for example set to sunny setting on a cloudy day and have the subject lit by the flash.



The exposed photo is  automaticaly popped out from the top of the camera and gets fully developed in some minutes.

Take care when framing close, the viewfinder shows less space than the one recorded on film.
My son's shoe was not intended to be in the picture...