Keystone 590PD AF, a low quality camera.

This Keystone 590PD AF camera came as a gift with the Lubitel 2 I bought for 4 euros in the street.
It is a simple point and shoot camera. that takes pictures automatically.

I've put a roll Fuji 100 ASA and the pictures came out average, not very sharp, not very contrasty, the camera cannot focus close for portrait shots.

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Konica C35AF the first autofocus camera

This is the first autofocus camera. It has a central point auto focus and a strange indication to the side of the lens. Only after taking the picture a pointer moves and indicates the distance selected by the camera.
Apertures start from 2.8 and shutter speeds selected by the camera are only 3, 1/60th, 1/125th and 1/250th sec.
I don't remember paying more than 2 euros for the camera.An exact copy of the Konica C35AF is my Russian Elicon 35C, but this one is a zone focus camera.

Coronet Twelve-20, an old cheap toy.

This is a camera from the fifties. Looks like a TLR but it isn't. There is no aperture control nor shutter speeds. A small lever changes focusing from near to distant objects. Takes 120 or 620 film.
The box is made of carton with no screws. I cannot dismantle the camera to clean it, I can't check the focusing either. The Coronet Twelve-20 is just a cheap simple toy camera.

Olympus Go100, some more...

Some more from the 100 ASA Fuji film.
The Olympus Go100 delivered nice photos.

Olympus Go100, shoot wide and fast.

This is a simple point and shoot camera. It has only one shutter speed and apperture combination. I assume about f5.6 - 8 and 1/100 - 1/125sec. The lens is a wide 27mm. A usefull feature is the selector that gives the option not to use flash.

I put a roll of 100 ASA film and the photos were properly exposed in normal sunshine days.
The lens does not need focusing but I got sharp pictures from very close to around 20 meters. Distant objects are a bit out of focus.

with flash for fill in

Pionyr bakelite camera

The Pionyr is a bakelite camera made in Czechoslovakia in the 50s.
It has an Instant shutter speed (1/30sec?) and a B. Choice of 2 apertures. Takes 120 film. The lens barrel unscrews forward and must be turned to a position indicated by the symbols on the metal plate for correct focusing.

I will clean the shutter and test it later.

Altix NB from DDR

I found this viewfinder camera dripping in the rain and paid 5 euros. The shutter blades are not working. It has a light meter and interchangeable lenses. My camera has the famous for its bokeh Trioplan lens, with a focal length of 50mm and f2.8

I have put the Trioplan in front of the EOS and got some close up pictures - it won't focus at infinity with the EOS - but I am not impressed.

Moskva 5, difficult but trusty.

After WWII the Soviets took over the Zeiss plant in East Germany and started producing the Zeiss cameras under a different brand.  The Moskvas are copies of the Zeiss Super Ikonta cameras.

The Moskva 5 is a difficult camera. Very heavy but robust, with two tiny viewfinders, one for focusing and one for framing, and a shutter release button at the left side. It is perhaps better suited for left-handed photographers. The Industar lens is sharp and fast enough at f3.5 but very difficult to read the numbers and set the aperture/shutter speed.

The camera takes 9 6x9 pictures on 120 film, it also has a 6x6 capability with a mask that I do not have.
It is a big camera but when folded it fits into a coat pocket.

 I put a roll of Reala 400 in the camera and I got 6 properly exposed photos, I then rephotographed the negatives.

Indoors

and outdoors

Fed - 2 at the street

Some more pictures from the street with the Fed-2

 

with the scratched Industar-22 50mm/f3.5 lens