Practica M60, 2nd film

I had another film in the Praktica M60. The camera has a wide angle lens of 26mm and is very simple to use, just aim and press the shutter.
There is only one shutter speed and one aperture - it can have an extra slow speed in the night portrait mode only. It takes good pictures in sunshine and with the flash.

Here are some samples:

 mannequins, converted to B/W

 I used the forced flash option for the next two pictures

 

Halina 35-600, first test

The Halina 35-600 camera is an Olympus Trip clone. It has a 40mm f2.8 lens with zone focus but has an CDs metering cell that works with a 1,35V battery. The exposure system is automatic, the camera chooses aperture and shutter combination.

My camera can not work in auto mode as the battery compartment is faulty. However the camera is usable in flash mode, a single shutter speed (1/30 ?) is available and aperture is set with the lens ring. The shutter button needs a long and firm press that may lead to camera shake.

I loaded a 200 ASA film, here are some samples

I used a flash in these, it worked fine

The lens is sharp at small apertures, soft wide open, and the distance to subject must be measured accurately.

Praktica M60, some more

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The Praktica M60 is a very simple camera that takes good pictures in daylight.

Here are some more samples from a 100 ASA film expired in 2004

 This is taken with the night setting (shutter at 1/4 sec)

 I used the flash here for fill-in

Argus A2b, some more

Here are some more photos taken with the Argus A2b. The camera is small and good looking but many photos came out out of focus or shaken because the lens rotates and the shutter lever is on the front of the lens.

Film was a 200 ASA
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Praktica M60, wide simple and good

The Praktica M60 is a simple point-and-shoot camera with a wide lens

The body is very compact and has a fixed wide angle 28mm length lens made of glass. There is only one aperture, f8 I believe. Shutter speed is fixed at 1/80th sec. If the night mode is selected from the top display the shutter can go to as low as 1/4th sec that makes difficult to hand hold the camera. Other options on the display are Auto Flash, red-eye, no flash, forced flash and self timer with flash on. The wide angle lens needs no focussing for objects more than 1 meter far.

The camera takes very sharp pictures at daylight with some vignetting. With the low shutter it is difficult not to shake the camera.

I loaded the camera with a 100 ASA film that expired in 2004. It seems that the lens is not sharp at infinity. For distances 1 to 10 meters all objects are sharp. However the colors are very bright and saturated.  Here are some samples:

I used the forced flash setting for fill-in

 

 

 

 

 Background at infinity is not very clear

I used the night setting for the previous one - I see no difference...