Halina 500, an Olympus Trip 35 clone

The Halina 500 is a 60's camera that is based on the Olympus Trip design. It has a scale focus 40mm/f2.8 lens.

It focuses manually, using a distance scale on top of the lens or a scale in meters/feet at the bottom.
The camera is automatic, a CDS meter selects either a 1/40th sec speed either a 1/200th and the apropriate aperture from f2.8 to f22. Therefore the minimum light setting for this camera will be a 1/40th f2.8 combination. The meter cell needs a 1.35V battery that is obsolute now, I've put a 1,5 LR44 cell and worked fine.

Here are some samples with a 200 ASA film. The camera produced some fine, sharp and well exposed images.
      

I found a light leak, but it is not present in all of the shots

 at the forest in B/W

 A pano of three consecutive images

Qingdao Flash, an Agfa Optima clone

 This is a Chinese camera, same as the Agfa Optima Senson flash model from West Germany. Apparently it was made at the time under a licence from Agfa.

 The camera has a rectractable built in flash, that doesn't work in my copy. The lens is the same for the Optima's a 40mm/f2.8 and focussing is manual guessing the distance.

 There is also the characteristic orange sensor shutter button.

The shutter is electronic controlling both the speed and the aperture. Lowest settings are 1/45th sec and f2.8, so this is not a low light camera, the flash must be used. As with my other Agfa Optima the shutter did not open in all shots, I got some underexposed results, and the meter exposes for the bright areas leaving the shadows underexposed.


I used a 200 ASA film.
Indoors at minimum focus distance

 I must watch out for parallax in close ups...

 This is underexposed

 It was probably too dark here for the shutter to work.

 Another close up

 Here the sky was correctly exposed but not the church

 This was converted to B/W

Altix Nb fixed, some more.

Here are some more samples from the Altix Nb and the Trioplan 50mm/f2.9 that I fixed.

 Film was a Kodak Colorplus 200 ASA and played a bit with the double exposures.

 

 

Lomo LC-A, some more from the first film

The LC-A is a very compact camera and a joy to work with it.

My camera has some light leaks, I must fix it later..

Here are some more samples from the Kodak Colorplus 200ASA film.

At the closest distance, 0.8m 

At night you must press the shutter and wait until it clicks again when closing while the camera is steady!

Minolta Pocket Autopak 430 E

I found this old Minolta Pocket camera that takes 110 film.

 There are a few settings for this camera. On off lens cover, a lever for portrait/group/lanscape focus setting, and bright light/flash. The flash comes off a bit on the side. Aperture and shutter seem fixed at f5.6 and 1/200th second. The camera takes one AA battery, if light is not enough a red led indicates that flash must be used.

I must find a 110 film to test it...