Fuji Instax 200, for instantly printed photos

The Fuji Instax 200 is a very big camera, made of plastic, that takes Fuji Instant film.
The lens is a 60mm, that corresponds roughly to a 35mm lens in the 35mm equivalent.

 
There are not many controls in the camera. A LED display tells you how many shots are left in the film and the settings chosen. Focussing has two choices, 0.9-3 meters and 3m - infinity.
A red button powers on the camera, another one controls the exposure - normal - lighter - darker, and a last one button is for flash on/off.

I took some photos with it and rephotographed them with my Canon EOS. The prints are glossy, bright, with saturated colours, very pleasing to the eye.

 This was set to Darken

and this was with flash indoors

Olympus Mju III 115, fully featured but slow.

The Olympus Mju III 115 (Stylus Zoom 115 in the US) is a small point and shoot compact camera. It has a zoom lens with a focal length from 38mm to 115, thus it is not very wide. The maximum aperture is not wide either, starting from 4.9 at the wide end and going to 8.9 at the tele end.

That makes the camera slow and needs higher sensitivity film, at least 400 ASA.

Otherwise it is highly specified with a wide set of film speeds, auto exposure with shutter speeds from 4 secs to 1/500 sec, an active autofocus, weatherproof, with a self timer and flash controled by the user.
It was considered one of the best buys at its time back in 1996.

It had an unexposed 200ASA film left in the camera, so I  used it to test the camera. Candid moving subjects came out blurred but all other kind of pictures came out well exposed and sharp.

Some samples

Moving people got blurred due to low shutter speed selected by the camera even at the harsh summer noon light. 

A shot with flash

 

A close up, at the minimum focussing distance of the camera.

A portrait at the tele end, 115 mm.

A graffiti at a door.

 With the self timer.

The 38mm is not very wide, so I took two photos and stitched them in the computer.

And a photo from the previous owner left in the film that escaped light fogging

More BW with the Canon AF 35 ML

Some more pictures from the Kodak BW 400 CN film.
The camera uses a fast lens but the maximum speed is only 400 ASA. Pictures taken at night need a very steady hand or some kind of support for the camera. 

These pictures where taken in the streets of Vienna at late afternoon and at night.

When photographic close up objects the camera is focussing past the object and perhaps needs the photographer to move the camera backwards a little.

                              

Wirgin Edixa, a rangefinder camera with a double viewfinder

I found this Wirgin Edixa at a thrift store. The camera has a 45mm/f2.8 lens with shutter speeds from 1/25 to 1/200 plus B. There is a characteristic lens plate on the front that makes the camera's design unique and helps to the strength of the lens controls.

There are two viewfinders in the camera. One is for composing the picture. The other one is smaller for focussing, two separate windows must match the image horizontay, by turning the focus ring.
I cleaned the camera and adjusted the rangefinder, but the advance lever has not enough friction to advance the film. I must fix it later.

More from the Canonet 28

Some more pictures taken with this fine classy camera

At the street

 At the shipyard

 At the beach

Canon AF 35 ML, a point and shoot with a fast lens

The Canon AF 35 ML is a point and shoot with a fast professional lens, it is a 40mm with the rare to find maximum aperture of f1.9.
I think I paid 5 euros for this camera. The battery door is broken and needs a rigid piece of plastic to be fasten in the tripod hood to keep the door closed. With a 400 ASA film and its fast lens you can shoot in low light but not candids as there is a noisy beeper warning of the low light.

Some photos from the Kodak 400 BCN BW film. This film is easily proccessed in c-41 chemicals for colour film in the photo lab.