Konica C35Af a nice autofocus camera

The camera has a good central autofocus system. The exposure meter is accurate too. Most of my photos came out very nice, since there are fast shutter speeds in the camera, 1/60, 1/125 and 1/250th sec.

Some samples from the film, scanned and enhanced a bit in LR.

Ruined monastery

Smoking

Enough with the photos, honey!

 

 

Scratching the parking card

Scratching the parking card

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Kodak Vest Pocket, from World War I

I found this Vest Pocket Kodak in an antique store. It is a very small folder camera, uses 127 film and needs no focusing. There are 4 aperture settings, (around f8, 11, 16 and 22) and 4 shuuter selections, 1/50th sec, 1/25th, B (Bulb, shutter stays open while the release lever is pressed) and T (Press once opens the shutter, press again to make it close)

 The camera fits into a pocket and was easy to carry it to the front of World War I. As photographing was not permitted in the war zones the photos taken illegally by the soldiers are our main documentaries for life in the war.

The camera needs 127 film which is not produced anymore, so I put a 120 film cut to the size of 127 film. I also shortened the film and backing paper as the 127 spool is thinner than the 120 one. Unfortunately the camera cover opened many times exposing the film to light. I also think that there is light entering from back film window.

So these are the only pictures where there is a visible detail

Film processing and scanning

I do all of my film processing at professional photo laboratories.

Most of the time I visit the Foto Corfu shop in Halandri, Athens (www.fotocorfu.gr).

They will develop any colour film I handle to them in about a half an hour. They also have a good quality scanner and can deliver high resolution jpegs. Foto Corfu owner is very polite with a high standard service and very low prices. Only drawback is they will scan only 135mm film.

The www.aa-digitalphoto.gr/‎ is a Photo lab in the center of Athens. I use their services when I am downtown. They also develop any film and can scan 120 film but only in the 6x6 format‎. The standard resolution is lower than that of the Foto Corfu, with slightly higher price. Delivering time is usually into the same day.

For B/W processing I usually go to Mr Chouliaras' lab in the center of Athens (Ioulianou 17). There is no scanning offered, but the film gets developped into the day.

If a have a 120 negative in 6x9 format I will rephotograph the negative with my Canon EOS and then will convert it in Lightroom.

Voigtlander Vito CD, mixed impressions

This is a Voigtlander vito CD I had purchached for 5 euros long ago. I cleaned the shutter and now works fine. The camera is full manual, focusing and exposure setting. There is a selenium meter that indicates the EV value of the scene to manually set the shutter - aperture combination accordingly.

I took some pictures with it. Fast shutter speeds and small apertures gave very sharp pictures. In slower sutter speeds the camera needs a steady hand. The position of the shutter release button at the front of the camera  may introduce shake in the picture. Close focusing needs also a good judjement as out of focus pictures can easily happen.

 

 

 

the 50mm lens is not wide enough sometimes, here's a pano stitched from two consecutive images.

More from the Olympus Trip 500 in the U.S.A

Some more photos

Olympus Trip 500, trip to U.S.

The Olympus Trip made a transatlantic trip to the U.S.A. It has only one aperture and shutter combination and the flash fires automatically.

Here are some photos from the East Coast. Despite its total lack of features the pictures are corectly exposed, there is reasonable sharpness in near objects and an insane amount of vignetting.