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.

Canon EOS iX, some more...

I took some good pictures with the camera, but is not smaller than my Canon EOS 300. So why I should choose an APS film camera?

some more samples
with the Exaktar 55mm/1.7

and the Tokin 12-24mm/4 @15mm

Votar Flex a basic TLR

I found this pseudo-TLR at the Sunday flea market. It does have two lenses but it does not need focusing, there is only one shutter speed, around 1/30 to 1/50 sec, plus B for night pictures. Only 3 apertures are available f8, 11, 16.

There was an 120 film in the camera which I processed. Only two photos were visible.

a lady in the balcony

an accidental double exposure

the rest of the film was dark or fogged, perhaps it was not exposed properly from the first owner.

I will put some film to test it later.

2nd try with the Canon ML

The Canon AF 35 ML has a 40mm lens with a fast aperture of f1.9, so it is suitable for night shots. This time I loaded the camera with a 400 ASA Kodak colour film

I did not like the results. The camera cannot focus near, all objects around 1 meter are out of focus. Flash gave me red eye pictures, and night street shots were underexposed.

I took some nice pictures in the street

and some underexposed at night

indoors was a bit better