Kodak Starflex, simple, cheap and good

The Kodak Starflex is a very simple camera of the Star cameras that take 127 film

I used a Bluefire Murano 160 ASA, 127-type film. The f11 and f16 apertures together with the 1/50 shutter speed need good light conditions. no focussing is required.
The plastic lens of  the Starflex delivered good pictures.

As the lab cannot scan the film, I rephotographed the negatives and inverted in Lightroom 3.

A loader

 A frozen foods shop

 Town Hall of Acharnes

The film slipped in this one, resulting in overlapping exposures.
Academy of Athens, Socrates and Plato watching

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 A beetle car

 At a monastery

 Entrance of the monastery

At an air show

 At the air show

Jumbo shop, the Greek Toys'R'Us version

Kodak Star 127 cameras

I have acquired some Kodak 127 cameras from the Star series. The Starflex, the Starflash and the Starlet.
They use the same film box and lens while the top is different. The Dakon lens is a plastic, rather wide angle lens, a 35mm focal length equivalent, with two simple apertures, one around f11 and one around f16.
There is only one shutter speed, around 1/50th sec.

The Starflash has a large reflective disk that takes a flash lamp,
the Starflex has a waist level viewfinder that makes it look like a Twin Lens Reflex,
and the Starlet is a small point and shoot cameras.

The cameras are very simple, plastic made and consequently very cheap at their time but have a design that make them look like more capable and expensive cameras.

Kodak Brownie Starflex, simple and small

I spent 15 euros  for this camera, too much I suppose. It's a very simple camera, one shutter speed and two aperture settings, for B/W and Colour film, or Bright - Hazy sun. Uses 127 film that is no longer produced, so it is difficult for me to test the camera.

The Starflex is a pseudo TLR camera, composing is done from the viewfinder at the top, holding the camera at waist level. However it is rather small size for a dual lens camera.