Qingdao Flash, an Agfa Optima clone

 This is a Chinese camera, same as the Agfa Optima Senson flash model from West Germany. Apparently it was made at the time under a licence from Agfa.

 The camera has a rectractable built in flash, that doesn't work in my copy. The lens is the same for the Optima's a 40mm/f2.8 and focussing is manual guessing the distance.

 There is also the characteristic orange sensor shutter button.

The shutter is electronic controlling both the speed and the aperture. Lowest settings are 1/45th sec and f2.8, so this is not a low light camera, the flash must be used. As with my other Agfa Optima the shutter did not open in all shots, I got some underexposed results, and the meter exposes for the bright areas leaving the shadows underexposed.


I used a 200 ASA film.
Indoors at minimum focus distance

 I must watch out for parallax in close ups...

 This is underexposed

 It was probably too dark here for the shutter to work.

 Another close up

 Here the sky was correctly exposed but not the church

 This was converted to B/W