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As part of my running a camera shop I had the opportunity to use a Canon Canonet QL17 GIII, which was the last generation Canonet. This camera model has fetched a good price on the second hand market and sports a great lens - f/1,7 hence the name. Suffice to say a lot of cheaper cameras in the size category are very good too. From my experience I can advice you to try for instance the Ricoh 35 models, the Konica Auto S3, the Canonet 28 and several Minolta iterations. I used the Canonet through several seasons during the first half of 2015. It was a comfortable experience, but I realized that for my type of photographing I don't need a camera from the high-end (cost) spectrum. I manage real well with the cheaper Canonet 28 for instance, and the (defective) Minolta AL-F which succeeded the QL17 as my main camera for a long time. 'You need a ride Dad?' Thanks for reading this post! Don't hesitate to comment, and check out my Instagr

As regular readers of this blog will know, I am very attached to my Olympus Pen F half-frame SLR. These photos are from a roll which was exposed last summer. Most of the photos are made with a Pentacon (?) 200 mm lens - since sold - which makes it a 300 on a half-frame camera. The lens was larger than the camera body! but the kit was nowhere near being heavy or bulky. One can't expect tack-sharp photographs neither from half-frame negatives or the lens. Never mind. The church is in Uppsala - where also Sweden's oldest university is situated. On a sunny day getting decent exposure times wasn't a problem. Once indoors I had to find support to be able to make long exposures. As I said - there are students in Uppsala... Thanks for reading this post! Don't hesitate to comment, and check out my Instagram at  #ourbooksmalmo . Visit my Etsy shop  getOurBooks  where there are cameras aplenty to choose from.

No. 7: Agfa Isomat Rapid I bought it since I wanted to practice exposing for medium format in a cheap way. The camera uses a now obsolete film type of the Rapid format. It makes square exposures on 35 mm film, kinda like Instamatic cameras, originally 16 of them, but you can roll more into the canister. You need sprocketed 35 mm film, unlike what was originally in the Instamatic cassettes. The exposures are 24x24 millimeters on the film. You do have to waste one exposure because the camera expects you to remove the exposed roll after the sixteenth exposure. One has to open the film door but can close it again immediately. If done in a dark place the exposure is not lost. There is a fixed shutter speed and three apertures to choose from.   Focusing can be made through using the scale symbols or the precise markings on the undersinde of the lens.   As soon as I started using the camera I felt that the lack of resistance in the shutter button could be a cause of camera shake

These photos are from my first rolls using the Leica CL. Actually the two CL:s I've owned. The first camera was sold, then replaced two years later.   The lens used here is a Canon f/1,8 50 mm. The film is once again a Fomapan 400Action developed in Caffenol. My second roll with the CL  was exposed with the Jupiter-8 50 mm lens that came with it. The photographs were made in a mansion park in late summer. It is a historic site with 19th century buildings, both for private and industrial use. I have to say that I was very inspired that day, from the light and the surroundings, and using the special lens and camera.  Thanks for reading this post! Don't hesitate to comment, and check out my Instagram at  #ourbooksmalmo . Visit my Etsy shop  getOurBooks  where there are cameras aplenty to choose from.

Here's some sunlight colliding with my old Leica M5; Canon f/1,8 50 mm; Fomapan 400Action developed in Caffenol. It was a short affair, using the M5. I didn't even expose a full roll of film through it. It was too large for me, ultimately. That is a Special chair! Thanks for reading this post! Don't hesitate to comment, and check out my Instagram at  #ourbooksmalmo . Visit my Etsy shop  getOurBooks  where there are cameras aplenty to choose from.