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Canon PowerShot G5 with 2-3/7.2-28.8 lens
Huh, so many buttons - advanced consumer digital camera with a fast lens from 2003. Got it very cheap, because the charger/power supply is missing, therefore I couldn't test it so far. An extra power supply CA-560 is required to run it (or to load the battery), the USB connection doesn't work (only image transfer). Unfortunately the jack has three contacts with unknown purpose, so I can't improvise something. (The charger is wide spreaded among Canon DSLRs, but my friends and I are using Pentax or Nikon .. )
camera: contax t3 + contax tvs
film: fujifilm業務用100exp2016
shotdate: 201905/202107
不小心把拍過的東京t3再裝入台北tvs拍一次
Cosina CX7 with 3.8/33 Cosinon lens.
Neat little camera, the successor of the famous CX-2. It features auto focus and a flash, but it still has a manual film transport. It has a kind of vertically moving clamshell, which protects lens and viewfinder, like the Minolta AF-C.
The lens has 4 elements in 3 groups.
The camera requires 2x 1.5 V AAA micro-cells.
Two LEDs in the viewfinder indicate whether the AF found a subject near or far.
Thrift store rescue. Two kids using a black camera case as a hockey puck on the store's floor. They kicked it under a shelf, lost interest in retrieval and ran off to do other mischief.
Inside was old this guy. Still worked, case pretty scuffed up. Felt pity. Lost 99-cents to save it from further abuse. Good boy, stay.
Thumb wind, pop-up flash auto-focus camera from Yashica. Price-point camera from back in the day.
Decided to invest in something less bulky than my EOS just to keep with me all the time. This little fella's a cutie.
Quite a few photos I've upload from just the one film, which is unusual for me, I really should do another Xpro soon.
Konica C35 EFP2
Very simple camera, fixed focus, manual film transport, no exposure metering at all, even no underexposure warning. And there is probably only one shutter speed. The only comfort is a bright frame Albada finder (with parallax marks) and a flash-ready lamp.
I assume, that the camera provides only 3 apertures. The small one for the 400 ISO setting, the medium one for the 100/200 ISO setting. If you switch the flash on, the aperture opens fully, independent from the ISO setting. So at low light it could be a good idea to switch the flash on, even if there are no batteries for the flash in the camera.
Ricoh My-1 with 7/30 lens.
"35mm Ultra Compact Camera" is written on it, and that's true. It is smaller than a Minox 35. The shape of the body reminds me somewhat of another famous compact camera by Ricoh, but the My-1 is really a very cheap and plasticky camera. The lens is retractable, but not motor-driven: it just pops out powered by a spring when a button on the back is pressed.
The lens is fixfocus type.
The shutter can perform a 1/60 and a 1/125 s.
The flash modes are only automatic and on, not flash off.
It has a self-timer and mid-roll rewind.
It takes two micro AAA batteries.
Even though I bought myself a new compact camera to help make it easier to take my daily photograph, this strategy only works if you actually go outside during the day and don't stay put writing mindmaps and draft reports...
Hopefully the next few days will see me being able to give my compact camera a bit of a workout.
These cameras have a long provenance going back through 110 and 126 Instamatic cameras, all the way to Kodak's venerable Brownie Box camera. They were budget 35mm models aimed at users who neither knew nor cared how photography worked, they simply wanted a memory captured.
Lenses are fixed and hyperfocal, shutters operate around 1/100 sec, and if apertures vary, it's to coincide with two modest film speeds.
I'm fond of such cameras. Most don't require a battery except for flash, and they lack the burdensome and complicated functions of upmarket equivalents. You pressed the shutter, and exposure latitude and your high street photofinisher did the rest, to paraphrase George Eastman.
The real magic is photons, silver halides and the strange reality that unfolds before the camera.
Worcester, UK
January 2014
GOMZ Smena 2 PK2010 (c.1956)
Ilford XP2
The GOMZ Smena 2 is an ancestor of the Lomo LC-A. It is a compact camera with a bakelite body and a three element 40mm f4.5 lens. It has fully manual shutter, aperture and focusing controls. It has no film rewind mechanism. Instead these cameras use a double canister system and the film winds out of one and into the other. On this particular model the shutter setting and film winding operations are completely separate.