Pouva Start in the USA

I have taken my Pouva Start to a Trip in the USA, from New York to Boston.

I've loaded with Kodak Portra 160 ASA film.
The pictures are unsharp, overexposed with vignetting and lots of flare. I also got shaken pictures because the shutter button was stiff and needed very gentle pressing, which I found out later. a nice toy camera, indeed.

From Boston

 

At Mystic, Connecticut.

 West Haven beach, Connecticut.

 Cambridge, MA. Fort Washington

 Boston, Long Wharf

 Cape Cod house

Pouva Start, my first film

I first repaired the shutter of my Pouva Start. When the photographer presses the shutter a spring moves one piece of the shutter exposing the film to light. Then a second piece gets kicked by the first, thus closing the light path from the lens. It seemed that the second piece was not moved succesfully so I taped the two pieces together. Now it works but I don't have the bulb B setting anymore.

Anyway, I  loaded the camera with a Fujifilm Reala 120 - 100 ASA film and went out shooting. I find there is a lot of vignetting in the pictures with overexposed and oversaturated colours.

Calatrava's bridge

 Monastiraki Square

 Plaka, view to Acropolis

 Old factory transformed to office building, I think the circle in the image is the shadow of the diaphragm

 At the University

 Unknown soldier monument in front of the Parliament



Pouva Start

The Pouva Start comes from the Former East Germany. It's an attractive simple bakelite camera. Uses 120 film for 6x6cm pictures. There are two aperures (Sunny - Cloudy) and two shutter speeds (1/50? and Bulb).
There was film in it and turned out to be a color film developed by the lab in B/W chemicals? anyway the last two shots that I took were the only ones to be legible.

 The camera ready to take pictures:

 The last two shots of the film