Τρίτη 20 Νοεμβρίου 2012

Agfamatic 126

Another instamatic-type camera, found it with film. No settings in this one. fixed aperture and a fixed shutter speed, the speed changes if a flashcube is inserted.

The photo lab developped the film, my old crappy scanner scanned it. I did photograph the negatives. Quality of the images is very poor. Time to get me a new scanner!

Sunday morning at the sea:




 These are rephotographed


Kodak Instamatic 25

I found another Kodak Instamatic with a half used film in it, so I gave the 5euro bill and bought it.
I had the lever to cloudy all the time and snapped the film till the end.



The photo lab developed the film but was unable to scan it.
I did it with my old 35mm scanner. The film was very weak and the scan quality awful.

Photographs from the previous owner:


And these are mine:





All scanned images were tweaked in Lr3

Kiev 30 spy camera

I bought this small camera at the Sunday Flea Market for 10 euros. It is in very good, like new condition. It is a full manual camera with aperture and shutter settings. The camera is sliding open and gets ready for picture taking.  There is a focusing ring beside the shutter button. Takes a special 16mm film catridge.
As soon as I find some film I will test the camera.

The camera open and ready. The focus ring is next to the shutter button.


There is an exposure indicator next to the viewfinder, and to rings to set the aperture and shutter speed to the side of the camera.


Πέμπτη 8 Νοεμβρίου 2012

Canon Prima 120 classic, 2nd film

This time I loaded the camera with a Kodak Ultramax 400 that gave amazing colors.
Samples

an old car    

a wrecked car

Shop displays
with flash:


tree detail
and a pano from two merged shots

Δευτέρα 5 Νοεμβρίου 2012

Dacora Digna 1st roll

I loaded the camera with a Fuji 120 film (100 ASA) to test the camera. I noticed that when depressing the shutter button the shutter blades let some light fall over a small part of the picture. I tried to cover the lens first and then release my finger from the shutter button, but this was not done in every picture.

The Camera

I rephotographed the negatives and converted them to positives in Lr3
 there is some nice detail here

 The car was in a shady area and the camera underexposed the scene.


 a panoramic shot from three overlapped photos.

and an accidental double exposure - changing of the guards by the metro railway!.



Τετάρτη 24 Οκτωβρίου 2012

Kodak Instamatic 104

This Kodak Instamatic was at the street with its original box. I gave the seller a 2euro coin and bought the camera. It works fine but I must find an empty 126 catridge to put some 35mm film in it to use the camera. If I also find a used cube flash to put it in the flash slot I will have a second shutter speed.


A yoghourt toy camera

This toy camera was offered as a promotional gift with flavoured yoghourt for children. I found it at a street seller with its original box. I gave 1 euro and the toy was mine.
It's all plastic made with a fixed lens, fixed aperture and a fixed shutter speed.


It had a chinese noname 200 ASA film in it, with 12 exposures. From the viewfinder it looked that the lens was around 45mm but from the pictures it seems it's an 28mm!
There is vignetting, lack of sharpness and overexposure.
Here are the results: