Pouva Start, my first film

I first repaired the shutter of my Pouva Start. When the photographer presses the shutter a spring moves one piece of the shutter exposing the film to light. Then a second piece gets kicked by the first, thus closing the light path from the lens. It seemed that the second piece was not moved succesfully so I taped the two pieces together. Now it works but I don't have the bulb B setting anymore.

Anyway, I  loaded the camera with a Fujifilm Reala 120 - 100 ASA film and went out shooting. I find there is a lot of vignetting in the pictures with overexposed and oversaturated colours.

Calatrava's bridge

 Monastiraki Square

 Plaka, view to Acropolis

 Old factory transformed to office building, I think the circle in the image is the shadow of the diaphragm

 At the University

 Unknown soldier monument in front of the Parliament



Canon EOS 630 with expired film

I put a roll from my long expired stock of Agfa 100 XRG films. I rated it on camera to 20ASA and went shooting with my old Sigma 28-105mm/f3.9-5.6 the Canon EF 28mm/2.8 and a Tamron 135mm/2.8.

with the Canon EF 28mm/2.8

with the Sigma zoom
at tele position

 and at wide

and the Canon EF 28mm/2.8 again

Agfa Optima 1035 2nd try

I tried once more to see if the camera works correctly. Unfortunately it didn't. I got about 10 photos from a 36 exposure film, the rest was blank, the shutter did not open.
film was a long ago expired Agfa 100 XRG set to 25 ASA on camera.

At an airshow

 from a walk

 sunset

Kiev 60 TTL, the monster

I bought this enormous medium format SLR from a Russian street seller. It belonged to him but did not use it for over 15 years. It came with a big case, two interchangeble viewfinders (waist and eye level), a Volna 80mm/2.8 standard lens and a Jupiter 150mm/2.8 portrait one, filters, extension tubes for macro and release cord.

This thing is huge and heavy. It takes 120 film for 12 6x6 exposures. I did not put any film yet but we had some fun in the office.

More from the Olympus Trip 500

A nice toy camera. Some more photos from the first film.

At the beach

 And at the gas station

Olympus Trip 500

I bought it from a homeless seller for 5 euros, complete in the box, with the garantee card, case and strap. It's a simple camera using a fixed focus 28mm lens with a fixed aperture of f5.6 and a fixed shutter of 1/100s. Flash is automatic and cannot be switched off, therefore useless for candids.

I loaded the camera with a Fujifilm 100 ASA and got amazing low quality pictures. Unsharp, oversaturated photos with big vignetting. The film was scanned in the lab, I only corrected the horizon.

Fed 50, more from the 2nd film

more from the second film, exposure was made automaticaly by the camera.

Pericles watching

 The Runner

 Japanese protographers

  Calatravas bridge

Old and abandoned railway station

 Crossing the tracks