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

Altix Nb fixed, some more.

Here are some more samples from the Altix Nb and the Trioplan 50mm/f2.9 that I fixed.

 Film was a Kodak Colorplus 200 ASA and played a bit with the double exposures.

 

 

Lomo LC-A, some more from the first film

The LC-A is a very compact camera and a joy to work with it.

My camera has some light leaks, I must fix it later..

Here are some more samples from the Kodak Colorplus 200ASA film.

At the closest distance, 0.8m 

At night you must press the shutter and wait until it clicks again when closing while the camera is steady!

Minolta Pocket Autopak 430 E

I found this old Minolta Pocket camera that takes 110 film.

 There are a few settings for this camera. On off lens cover, a lever for portrait/group/lanscape focus setting, and bright light/flash. The flash comes off a bit on the side. Aperture and shutter seem fixed at f5.6 and 1/200th second. The camera takes one AA battery, if light is not enough a red led indicates that flash must be used.

I must find a 110 film to test it...

Altix Nb, fixed

After I fixed the lens focussing problem I put a film and started shooting

 The selenium light meter is not working, I exposed using the sunny 16 rule.

Film was a Kodak Colorplus 200 ASA

I used the separate shutter lever for double exposures

 at close distance

 and the f2.8 aperture for the famous bokeh

 not bad stopped down