Olympus AF-1 Twin, a fine compact camera

This is the Olympus AF-1 Twin, a camera with 2 focal lengths, a wide 35mm and a tele 70mm settings.

 

 There is autofocus, a Tele/Wide button to select the focal length, a button for flash options and a button for the self timer.

I took some pictures that came out quite nice. The exposure system is very accurate.
Using the Wide setting

 not bad for candids

and some portraits with the Tele setting

Sinpo AF 10, cheap, plastic but not bad

The Sinpo AF 10 is an unknown plastic compact camera. I gave 1 euro for this at the street and did not find any information about it.

It has a panoramic setting, some flash options, a self timer and a B setting, first time I see it in plastic point 'n' shoots. There is autofocus and a programmable shutter aperture combination. No info about the focal length or the maximum aperture.

I took some pictures with it

It takes sharp pictures in the center, soft around the edges, needs more than two meter clearance from the subject.

 using the self timer

 close objects are not sharp

 

Bencini Comet, out in the street.

I rolled a 135 film into a 127 spool with the original backing paper and put it in the Bencini Comet. I have placed two horizontal flaps in the camera's film frame. I also put some tape in the viewfinder. This way the field of view of the 55mm standard lens gets limited and becomes a small telephoto.

I took the camera out in the streets.  The f11 aperture of the camera needs good light for a 100/200 ASA film.
The film did not lay flat but this time the pictures had a smaller out of focus section.

Shop window

I pressed the shutter twice in this one

 I pressed some times the shutter here too...

with the B setting in the bakery

A double exposure holding the camera straight and upside down

Yasgica T5D (or T4 super), some more

Some more pictures taken with the Yashica T5D (or T4 super in the USA)

At night using the self timer

 interior of a church

 at the meat market

Altissa Periskop, for old time snapshots.

This is the Altissa Periskop, from the former DDR, a simple camera with limited functionality.

There are two shutter speeds 1/30 and B, and two apertures f/8 and f/16.
It is finaly a medium format snapshot shooter from the 50s that can take pictures only in good light.

Took some snapshots with this camera. At f/8 is a bit soft, better at f/16

Yashica T5D, another try

I was not very impressed the first time i used this camera, so I put some film to test it again. I was not satisfied this time neither.

When light is good pictures come up fine but at low light they are not very sharp.

at night

with flash

 a nice portrait with flash

with sunshine

at night

Kodak Retina Ia, a small folder.

This is a small compact folder camera that takes 35mm film.
It has a Schneider Xenar 50mm f/3.5 lens. There is a large choice of shutter speeds, from 1/500th to 1sec plus B. The camera is fully manual and need a guess estimate for the subject distance.

My camera has a problem with the focus helicoid, it is stuck. I must find some time to repair it, but the repair seems difficult.