Zorki 10, sleek and useless

Zorki 10, sleek and useless

A soviet camera of the 70s with a sleek design, bought for 10 euros.
The selenium meter is dead on this one, so I used the 1/30 mechanical shutter speed for flash synchronization. The position of the shutter release button made most of my photos blurry.

The lens is very sharp, but at 1/30th speed the camera needs a very steady support. I used an expired Agfa 100 film and used it as a 25ASA film with the f16-sunny rule. Sunny 1/30 and f11 or f16, shade 1/30 and f5.6 to f2.8 The film was exposed fine with good contrast and vivid colours but with a notable blue cast.

 

 

a blurry one

Agfa Paramat for endless photos

The Agfa Paramat is an automatic half frame camera. It uses a selenium photo meter that chooses the apertures and a fixed shutter speed of 1/125th second. Film sensitivity is set on the top of the camera from 10 to 200 ASA.

The camera takes 72 half frame pictures, that's a lot of photos. Focus is done by turning the lens. There is also a selector for A (Auto), Flash and B (Bulb). If Flash is set the apertures can be set manually.

I used the camera in Auto mode with a 100 ASA Fuji film.
A panorama of four consecutive frames

 

Olympus Mju II again

The Olympus Mju II is a nice little automatic camera. I have it in my palm and use it regularly.

More from the Kodak Brownie Hawkeye

Some more from the Kodak Brownie Hawkeye

Kodak Brownie Hawkeye

Kodak Brownie Hawkeye flash model, a nice vintage box camera. Ii is made of bakelite, some kind of a brittle old plastic, and has some cracks on the body cemented by glue. It has a bright waist level viewfinder, only one aperture and one shutter speed plus bulb.

I loaded it with a Kodak Portra 160 ASA film. It can take pictures only in bright sunlight.
I rephotographed the negatives, the film has a strong orange cast and I had a difficult time inverting the digital photos. This was the best I came to:

Voigtlander Bessa with colour film

I finally put an 800 ASA Lomography film in the Bessa. Distant shots came out blurry, but the near ones were good.

Sears Easi Load 600

The Sears Easi-Load FC 600 is a rebadged version of a Ricoh 126 C Automatic camera for Kodapak cartridges. There is a selenium meter, a strange cap for the flash bulb and a spring winder to advance the film.
The spring motor is stuck, I can't find film either.