Pico Mini 110 camera

A miniscule toy camera. Payed 1 euro for this, came with its original plastic matchbox and instructions in Italian. Takes the long discontinued 110 film format.  Has a fixed lens with a simgle f8/ 1/80sec aperture/shutter combination. There is a retractable plastic frame for image composition.

I loaded the Camera with the only film in production the Lomography Tiger 200 ASA. Results where dissapointing. Blurry, shaken photos, overexposed and oversaturated colors and framing was off. 

Here are some scanned samples.

More from Sabina

Some more from the first film:

a joiner



Sabina 1st roll

The Sabina camera was loaded with a 35mm 200 ASA Kodak Gold, rolled in a cut 120 backing paper. I used the length for 16 exposures, but the scratches in the emulsion proved it was too long and fit very tightly into the small camera body.

 Some samples from this toy camera!

 framing was off, and the film did not lay flat.

 and a double exposure

Sabina, made in Greece

New find. This is a small toy camera, Sabina made in Greece in the early sixties. I only know of one camera, the Picca - a Dakora Digna clone, that were ever made in Greece.
It must have an f11 aperture and a 1/30th speed. Takes 127 film. I have to roll a 35mm film into a 127 spool to test it, I'm anxious!

 

Bencini Comet 2nd roll

This time I loaded a Kodacolor 200 ASA film and was exposed fine, but I did mistake the frame markings that resulted in many overlapped pictures. The automatic lab scanner got confused so I joined some pics together. I also put some carton mask in the film frame to support the film flat but I didn't do a good job there either; the film was still not flat. Finaly the film got stuck but only after taking the last picture.

Samples from the Kodak 35mm film 200 ASA.

Canon EOS 630 2nd film

This time I loaded the camera with a long expired Agfa 100 XRG film and set it to 25 ASA.
The negatives needed a bit of contrast but the lab scanner made it fine.

Canon EOS 630 (EOS 600)

Bought it from the local craiglist for 50 euros with the Canon EF 28mm/f2.8 lens.
The camera is heavy and sturdy with a proffessional feel.
It has a very big and accurate viewfinder with only a central autofocus point.
While the camera perform all the complex operations expected for such an equipement all buttons are in totally different positions than the newer EOS cameras, well hidden in the body. But once the initial settings are set, only program modes (P, Av, Tv etc.) and exposure compensation are within easy reach and are very fast to set making it easy for the photographer to concentrate in picture taken.
I liked this camera as it is fast, with an accurate exposure meter, a viewfinder that can ease focusing with a manual lens and a feel of a proffessional camera. Only problem is the central point autofocus that needs an extra care when framing.

Canon EOS 630 with the Prakticar 35-70mm/3.5

Some samples with the EF 28mm/2.8 lens and Fujifilm 200 at the park: