Chinon 35EE automatic excellence

The seller in Vienna's flea market wanted five euros, I gave him four.  I put a hearing aids battery and the camera works fine.

The Chinon 35EE is a rangefinder, turn the focus ring till the two images in the viewfinder coincide into one.
It is black, small and automatic. It can take pictures from 1/250-f16 to 1/30-f2.7. There is a shutter/aperture indication in the viewfinder. If the light is not enough the shutter does not lock and you can still take the picture. The lightmeter can only switched off with the lens cap, there is no On/Off switch. The shutter button does not lock either, so it is easy to accidentaly take a picture in your pocket! So better do not wind the film to be ready for the next photo, if the button is pressed the shutter will not fire.

The camera takes very nice pictures. There is a favour of short shutter speeds in the automatic program, resulting in open apertures that give nice out of focus backgrounds.

Takes very sharp pictures

 

This one converted to B/W

 and this is a triptych, shot from the same spot

3 excellent automatic rangefinders

Below are some excellent fully automatic rangefinders I am using, they take sharp pictures and with a max aperture of f2.8 they give a nice out of focus background.

I also have other rangefinders but they are manual or semi automatic (like the Yashica Electro, the Kiev 4, Fed etc.)

These three are fully automatic and the user cannot change the exposure settings.

The Canonet 28 (Top right - The Canonet 17 top left is a manual/automatic camera)

Takes very good pictures, and can be switched off. It is bigger from the rest cameras and locks the shutter if exposure is under 1/30-f2.8. There is only the shutter speed indication in the viewfinder.

 
The Minolta Hi-matic F (Bottom left)

Small and fully automatic, takes excellent pictures. There is no indication of exposure in the viewfinder. Only the battery check led lights up if the light is not adequate.

 

The Chinon 35 EE (Bottom right)

Takes very good pictures, it is black, small and has shutter/aperture indication in the viewfinder. If the light is not enough the shutter does not lock and you can still take the picture. The lightmeter can only switched off with the lens cap, there is no On/Off switch. The shutter button does not lock either, so it is easy to accidentaly take a picture in your pocket!

More from the Kodak KE25

Some more pictures from this sharp and simple camera

Monastiraki square in the morning

He got upset!

Street

 Fruit market

Church in the morning

More from the Halina 6-4

some more samples from this cheap and simple 50s camera

 I think it's pretty with the red skin leatherette.

Kodak KE 25 a simple and sharp camera

This is a camera that takes 35mm film. The camera has an easy load system, it only needs the film to be pushed in and the camera winds it automatically.
There is only a shutter speed combination, 1/200th sec and f /5.6. Film speed choice is 100, 200 or 400 ASA. No need for focusing from 1.2 m to infinity
Only problem is the flash that fires automatically - not good for street shooting.

I must paid 2 euros for this and put a 200 ASA film. Here are some samples.

Halina 6-4, simple Lomo type camera

The Halina 6-4 is a simple 120 format camera made in Hong Kong. It can take  either twelve 6×6cm or sixteen 4×4cm images with an insert mask, but my camera does not have it. There are two viewfinders, one for 6x6 and one for 4x4.
The lens is labelled "Halina Achromat", with a maximum aperture of f/8, and apertures for f/11 and f/16. The front-element focus is marked into three zones.
The shutter is single speed + B, with double-exposure prevention interlock with the winder.

I think I paid 5 euros for the camera in the flea market. The leatherette was damaged so I placed a new fancy one!

I put a roll of Lomography 120 film. I got some nice overexposed pictures with vignetting, like the Diana and Lomo cameras. I also got some markings on the pictures from the paper printing, I think light comes through the paper backing of the film.
Here are some samples

 A contre-jour picture with paper markings