Canon Demi S, small and capable

The Demi S is a small half frame camera made by Canon. It has a 30mm lens (about 50mm for normal 35mm cameras) with a fast 1.7 aperture. There is a coupled selenium meter that allows the user to turn the aperture/speed rings to match the exposure needle. Focusing is made by guessing the distance to subject.

The camera takes sharp small pictures, 72 exposures can be made on a 135 film.
Here are some samples

A scanned half frame

Graffiti

 

 Joined together

 A panorama

Kodak Brownie Six-20, a capable box camera

The Kodak Brownie Six-20 is a box camera that unlike most box cameras has some more settings.

There is only one shutter speed (I)nstant + (B)ulb, like most of the box cameras, but also has a lever to select apertures f11,16 and 22 and another lever to select subject distances; this lever actually puts a small lens over the camera's main lens.

The camera uses only 620 film. 620 film is 120 film rolled in slimmer 620 reels.
I used an 120 film that had its reel edges trimmed off  to a smaller diameter with a nail cutter. The take up spool though needs to be a genuine 620 spool for the film to advance.

I used an 160 Kodak Portra film. The format of the film is 6x9cm. Labs don't have such a big mask to scan the film so I rephotographed the negatives. Here are the results:

Wreck. Main lens, shutter dial at I, f16

 Boat detail. Group add-on lens, shutter dial at I, f16

 Swan. Portrait attachement lens, shutter dial at I, f22

 Girl. Portrait add-on lens, shutter dial at I, f11

 Square scene. Two exposures, main lens, shutter dial at I, f16

 Shop arcade. Main lens, shutter dial at B (3 seconds I guess) and f11

Some more from the Nikon Zoom 500AF

Some more samples from the Nikon Zoom 500 AF. The camera is not very big for a zoom film camera. It is fully automatic with small apertures so needs good light.

 

 There are some opptions for the flash (Auto, anti-red eye, forced on and off) a self timer and a landscape setting.

 I used a cheap film that expired in 2004

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