Old camera collection

Παρασκευή 21 Οκτωβρίου 2016

Minolta Freedom Family Zoom, some more

This is a very basic snapshot camera. You just zoom and shoot!
It seems that my camera cannot focus at infinity.

Here are some more smples from the first film

Forced flash here

a joiner from two frames

Παρασκευή 7 Οκτωβρίου 2016

Lomo LC-A with black and white film

I put a roll of Ilford XP2 400 ASA film in the Lomo LC-A. The film is processed in color CN 41 chemical in the one hour labs

Results were horrible! I don't know what happened, the film was under or over exposed, lots of vignetting light leaks and low contrast.

Τετάρτη 14 Σεπτεμβρίου 2016

Some photos from a Kiev 4

I found some photos from an old expired Agfa 100 film, I should had rated it at 25 ASA, so I did some heavy processing...

Πέμπτη 28 Ιουλίου 2016

Minolta Freedom Family Zoom, a snapshot camera.

This is a fully automatic camera with a small zoom lens, a 35mm - 80mm. Aperture is not specified but it seems small around f5.6. There is auto focus and DX coding for auto ISO setting, therefore it is a camera for family snapshots in good light.
Flash is also automatic but it can be forced on by putting a finger on the lightmeter on the right of the viewfinder.

There are no controls other than the zoom lever.

I've put a Fuji 200 ASA film to test it. The lens is not very sharp and the camera seems it cannot focus in distant objects. The quality of the photos was low.

These were taken in bright sunshine. The camera overexposed these frames.