Canon Ixus II with damaged film.

I decided to use a little more the Canon Ixus II as it is a very flexible camera.

I found a Kodakcolor 200ASA APS film left on a store and decided to use it. The film had expired from 2004 and it proved it was very badly stored. All photos had a red cast and badly washed out colors.

Smena 8m, serious plastic toy

Some more from the plastic Smena 8m from the USSR. It looks like a simple toy but takes excellent pictures. It is full manual, so I guessed distances and set aperture and speed with the sunny-16 rule.

Some more photos
This was the last exposure, I thought the winder got stuck, I think I used the release button and exposed three times.

From the boat

From Serifos Island

 

Canonet 28, a very good rangefinder camera.

This is a high quality rangefinder from Canon from the 70s. It has the 40mm/f2.8 lens, thus its slower than the top of the range Canonet 17.It is an automatic camera that chooses aperture and shutter speed by itself. The only manual settings are the 1/30th sec speed for flash and the aperture settings from f2.8 to f22.
Focussing is done by turning the lens and combining the two images in the viewfinder into one. In the viewfinder there is only an indicator for the shutter speed selected by the camera but not of the aperture.
This is a full automatic camera that does not allow for full control from the user. If shutter speed needs to be longer than 1/30th sec the shutter locks and cannot take the picture. The only alternative is to change the ASA sensitivity selector and underexpose the picture.
With the help of some aluminum foil I managed to put two 1,4V battery cells for hearing aids, their voltage is close to the 1,3V of the original and discontinued mercury cells. 

To my surprise the camera delivered excellent pictures.
Here are some results

Some candids

At the beach

At the streets

 

Yashica T2, big and ugly

This is a rather big for a point and shoot camera, with un ugly design. It is made of plastic and the poor design makes sure to remind the owner that this is a very cheap camera. However the lens is a Zeiss Tessar 35mm/f3.5 that should be sharp. There is Autofocus, a self timer and simple flash control. A button to the right top of the camera powers up the camera and opens the lens cover.

I bought the T2 at the flea market for 2 euros. My camera has a broken latch of the back door and I suspect the electronics are not functioning correctly. Since then I came accross a much better camera the Yashica T5 (or T4 Super in the USA) that is smaller, better designed and works flowlessly.

Canon Ixus II, some more colour...

Some more samples with the Canon Ixus II using a Fuji 400 APS film expired in 2012

The camera delivered some good pictures, sharper at small apertures, not bad for a small format film,

While driving...

 With the self timer, camera sitting on a bench

 an old car parked

 No flash, hand held against a pole

No flash, camera sitting on a table

 at the beach

 and at sunrise

 

Smena 8m, looks like a toy but it isn't

I already had a Smena 8m but needed an extensive shutter repair, so when I came accross this brand new camera with case and manual I gave the 5 euros to the street seller in order to try it.

It is a cheap simple all-plastic camera with only manual controls. The aperture starts from f4 and is set from a ring in front of the lens that also sets the film speed in ASA/DIN. The user selects the film speed used and the aperture stays fixed. Then the shutter speed is set by symbols - rainy, cloudy, sunny, very sunny.
The lens has a focal length of 40mm -not very wide - and focussing is done with a scale ring that has distances in meters and symbols- portrait, groups, landscape.

The shutter needs to be cocked by a lever and then the user presses the top button to take the picture.
This kind of easy system proved to be successful in simple picture taking and the lens proved to be very sharp.

Here are some samples with a Fuji 100 ASA film

 

Canon Ixus II, good camera but needs APS film

This was a 5 eyro find. The Canon Ixus II camera is a zoom compact automatic camera that takes APS. The APS film is discontinued, difficult to find and it is smaller, therefore lower in quality, than the 135 film.

The lens is the equivalent of a 35-70mm in 135 format, with slow aperture, starting from f 4.5
I loaded the camera with a Fuji film 400 ASA expired in 2012 with 40 exposures.

The photos I took in bright sunlight came out nice, close subjects were very sharp too.