Time Magazine Camera, a fake, plastic, toy camera that takes good pictures

This camera was offered to the readers of Time Magazine. It looks as a good and expensive SLR camera but in reality it is a very simple camera made of plastic, a toy camera.

 

It needs no focusing, and has a manual aperture ring with the option to choose between f/6, 8, 11, or 16.

The lens is a fixed focus 50mm with a single element. There is only one shutter speed of 1/100th sec.

Although this is a simple toy camera, it does take good pictures.

Here are some samples

At the Olympic Stadium

 At work

 While driving

I had a problem with the advance lever here

 

Travelcam, a cheap failure

I was given this simple plastic camera. It is a very simple plastic cheap camera, probably a giveaway with a magazine.
There is only a shutter speed and aperture and no focusing is necessary. It had film in it and I decided to finish it. It was a total failure.

The film turned out all uniform dark, as if it was exposed in the light.
I will have to test it again...

Strumpf Toy Camera

A plastic toy camera. Bought it for 1 euro.
It has one aperture and one shutter speed. I can't figure out the focal length of the lens. Is it 35mm or 28mm?
I must put a film in when out to the beach on a bright day; I think the camera needs good lighting conditions.

Camera closed

 Camera ready

A yoghourt toy camera

This toy camera was offered as a promotional gift with flavoured yoghourt for children. I found it at a street seller with its original box. I gave 1 euro and the toy was mine.
It's all plastic made with a fixed lens, fixed aperture and a fixed shutter speed.

It had a chinese noname 200 ASA film in it, with 12 exposures. From the viewfinder it looked that the lens was around 45mm but from the pictures it seems it's an 28mm!
There is vignetting, lack of sharpness and overexposure.
Here are the results: