Olympus Trip 500, just press the button.

Some more samples from the Olympus Trip 500. The camera is very simple to use, has only one aperture and shutter speed, just press the button. If flash is needed it fires off automatically.

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Kodak Pony 135, more good photos

Some more photos taken with the 50's Kodak Pony 135 camera.

  samples:

 and a double exposure:

Summer 2013 with the Rollei Sportline 62

After a long time I used my Rollei Sportline 62 during the summer vacations. Picture quality is not very good, the lens is flaring very easily. The Exif information says that the aperture stays always at f2.8 I don't know if this true because the Depth of Field is very large and the camera's lens is fixed focus. Probably the aperture is around f8-f11? to achieve sharp focus without focusing.

The camera was used underwater. The shutter button after one year of inactivity became stiff and needed a lot of pressure. The LCD is almost impossible to view in the bright sunlight. There is a long shutter lag, so the diving persons are no more underwater when the picture is taken. That meant a lot of missed photos and the two new batteries were drained after half an hour or after about 60 shots.
But if you have a lot of spare batteries and your company is willing to dive again and again this camera is fun to use.

Some samples

 

 

 

 

Kodak Pony 135, all manual and amazing

I bought this Kodak Pony 135 very cheap, for 2 euros. It is a 50s camera made of  brown bakelite and aluminum.

The camera is full manual, has scale focusing, shutter speeds from 1/300 to 1/25 plus B and apertures from f3.5 to f22. There is a lever on the lens to arm the shutter. After pressing the shutter button it needs a push of a lever to activate the winding of the film. It is a little complicated at first, but easily employed thereafter.
That way double exposures can be made.

The 44mm Kodak anaston lens produces excellent pictures, very sharp and pleasing to the eye.

Canon Snappy 50, gone snapping...

This is a simple Point and Shoot camera with a strange design.

It has a 35mm lens going to f3.5, with auto focus and auto exposure. There is a selector for the film speed (100 to 400 ASA) and an orange button to activate flash.

I used it for snapping, as it was meant to be used.
I got nice results.

3 pictures from the Chinatown building

Around Chinatown

Around the Yacht port