Elicon 35CM, some more

 Some more pictures from the Elicon 35CM

The pop up flash gets easily disengaged and drains the batteries. If the batteries are dead the Auto Exposure system does not work, the shutter fires but the blades do not open. The user thinks he took a photo but in reality there was not an image recording.

Some more samples

Elikon 35CM, plastic, sharp but slow

This is a soviet clone of the Konica C35 AF camera, but does not have autofocus. It is the same camera with the Elikon 35C, plus it has a lever to select the aperture manually in case the batteries are not working.
When shooting manually the shutter speed defaults to 1/125th.
The lens is a sharp Industar 38mm with a maximum aperture of f 2.8
With the automatic setting the aperture ranges from f 2.8 to 16 and the speeds are from 1/8 to 1/500.

The lens may be sharp but the camera needs a steady hand, as it selects low shutter speeds that are prone to camera shake.
I loaded a 400 ASA film in it and got out to shoot candids but I got shaken pictures.
However the exposure system is accurate.

Here are some samples