Some more from the Olympus AF 51

Some more pictures from the Olympus AF 51. The camera is simple with a 28mm lens, and single aperture at f8. The flash fires automatically and there is a self timer button. Overall a simple point'n'shoot camera.

The camera takes good pictures in adequate light. By tapping a finger on the sensor the flash is forced to light up.

Here are some more samples from the first film

Nikon Zoom 310Af, a good Point and Shoot

The Nikon Zoom 310Af is a small zoom compact camera. The lens is zoomed from 35 to 70mm. Aperture is not mentioned on the camera but it is not very wide, so the camera needs rather good light.

There is only a center point autofocus, there is no autofocus lock as a half press of the shutter takes a picture.

I used a Fuji 200 film and took some pictures

Yashica 24 TLR

I gave a try with my Yashica 24, the camera was designed for 620 (24 exposures) film but there is a marker in the interior body for the start position of 120 (12 exposures) film.
The camera has an coupled lightmeter that uses one 1.35V battery, I used the 1.5V equivalent and the exposure needed 1/2 stop down.

 When using the camera I realized that the inner element of the lens had fallen off! So, I only got half film exposed.
Anyway, here are the samples

I hope the next try will be more successful. 

 

kodak Vest Pocket Model B

This is the second generation of the famous Vest Pocket camera by Kodak. Its design is different from the first model and follows the classic design of the majority of foldable cameras.

The lens is a normal lens (around 50mm equivalent). There are 2 shutter positions, T (Timed) - one click of the lever opens the shutter, the next click closes it, and I (Instant) with a speed of I think 1/50sec.
The diaphagm is set by a disk and is marked 1 to 4, I believe aperture number 1 is an f/8, 2 is f/11, 3 corresponds to f/16 and 4 corresponds to f/22.

The camera needs no focusing, all subjects from 2.50m generally to Eternity will be sharp.

I received my camera in bad condinion full of dust and rust. After a cleaning it looked a lot better. As I had an 127 film I loaded the camera and got out shooting. The film inside was a Kodak Portra 160ASA color film but the lab scanned it in Black and White. From the pictures I see there is a lot of blur out of the center of the image which stays sharp. Maybe the lens needs a lot more cleaning.

Here are the pictures from the film in B/W

Mosque
Outdoors sunny, shutter I and aperture No3 (1/50, f/16)

Old F-5 airplane
Outdoors heavy shade, shutter I and aperture No1 (1/50, f/8) it was 1-2 stops underexposed

Statues
Outdoors sunny, shutter I and aperture No3 (1/50, f/16)

Guard
Outdoors open shade, shutter I and aperture No1 (1/50, f/8)

Laboratory
Indoors, shutter T and aperture No3 (4 seconds, f/16), the aperture No3 allowed focus at 2 meters

Arriving train
Outdoors sunny, shutter I and aperture No3 (1/50, f/16)

Nikon Zoom 500AF

Here are some more photos from the compact Nikon Zoom 500Af

 

The camera is relatively small, with a zoom range from 38 to 105mm
Aperture are rather small, so the camera needs good light. I got some shaken photos as there is no low light warning. There is no focus lock either. The main subject must be around the center of the frame.

Some more samples from the damaged film that expired in 2004:

wide end

 Tele end

  The lens door was not opening fully