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

Steinheil 2nd film

I tried with a Kodak Tri-X 400 ASA B/W film. I overexposed some pictures and the negatives came out very dark. Then, I photographed the negatives and used a preset in Lr3 to convert to positive.

and an accidental double exposure:

Photos from Agfa Optima

I had the first roll processed and found that half of the images were not recorded. I opened the camera to find out that while pressing the button everything seemed to work fine, but the shutter did not open most of the times. After a hundred clicks it seems to work now, I must check it later.

the scanned samples:

Agfa Optima 1035

The Agfa Optima is a nice designed camera from the seventies. It has a 38mm/2.8 lens and a big, bright viewfinder. It is fully automatic, therefore battery dependent. A green led in the viewfinder indicates that it is ok to take a picture, a red led indicates risk of handshaking but allows the shutter to open.

Kodak Instamatic

I paid 1 euro for this cute but beaten up Kodak Instamatic Camera. I could use it if film for this camera was available.



Canon Canonflex

Canon's first SLR camera. It's big and impressive.
I found it with the normal 50mm/f1.8 lens and a 85mm/1.9 lens.
The 85mm lens is from the Canon rangefinder cameras, without a focusing helicoid. At the time Canon put those lenses on an adapter for their 1st SLR the Canoflex. The adapter has a focusing helicoid with an R mount that is similar to FD mount.
I have shorten the working distance a lot, by fabricating a brass coupling thread for the adapter, now I can focus to infinity to use it on the EOS.
I can use a Maginon and a Leica 90mm projection lenses with this adapter.

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