Horizon 202, wide panoramic and impressive pictures

The Horizon 202 is a great manual panoramic camera.

 This time I did not loaded the film well, it was not laid out well and gave some out of focus areas at the right side of the images.

Here are some samples

 

 

Olympus OM2n, a real gem

The Olympus OM-2n is a small and precisely engineered SLR camera. Mine has a Zuiko 50mm f1.4 lens.
There is either aperture priority setting (Auto), you only have to adjust the aperture ring, or Manual mode, you adjust the aperture and shutter rings till the needle falls between the + and - sign.

The lens is fast, so I loaded the camera with an 800 ASA Fuji film and went shooting at night.

Here are some samples

A car shop

 A pastry shop

 Clothes shop and pharmacy

 Tavern

 Shop displays

 Sunglasses

 At the office with available light

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

 

Some more from the Ansco Memar

The camera can take some good pictures

Some more photos from the Ansco Memar

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...

Zenit S, some more

The Zenit S is a manual camera and is very difficult to repair it as there is no access behind the lens and in the shutter curtains. Shutter speeds slower than 1/50 seem unreliable, so I mostly used the dial set on the 1/100s speed.

Here are some more pictures from the first film I used in the Zenit S

 

Ansco Memar (Agfa Silette) an average family camera of the fifties

The Ansco Memar is a German Agfa Silette made in the U.S.A. The design is an average camera design of the fifties marketed for the average family takers.
It has a 45mm / f3.5 lens, the f3.5 aperture is not very fast but not very slow, the focal length of 45mm is neither wide nor tele, it is the average standard.
It has a B setting and 1/25, 1/50, 1/100, 1/200 shutter speeds. There are not many speeds, but they are adequate.
I had the camera sitting for a long time. I have cleaned the shutter and the focussing helicoid, I also calibrated the infinity setting of the lens. 

I have put a colour Fuji film in the camera. It behaved good but not something to be excited about.
Here are the results

 The camera is very quiet and fast, nice for candids

 I converted these pictures to B/W, I liked them better

 A night exposure with the B setting