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Early Spring Roll

Here are some pictures from the recent winter weeks, spring coming on. --- Picture taken with Minoltina P.  --- This and the following pictures are made with my Canon Demi C with 50 (=70) mm lens. The camera takes half-format photos, so you get 72 exposures on a 36 roll of standard film. They end up in pairs on the copies - if you don't ask the lab otherwise - which sometimes adds a quality to the pictures. These last pictures are taken last spring with another Canon Demi - see here.

Black is Black!

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Black is Back

This one's soon up for sale at my Etsy shop. Update: Here it is!

Film As Canon Fodder

Pictures taken with my 1965 Canonet QL17. Fomapan 100 ASA film. Get your own 35 mm camera at my shop .

Half and Off

Canon Demi C is a half-format viewfinder camera with exchangeable lenses - which is very rare. Now it is mine! Exposure works in coupled manual mode as well as in flash setting (1/30th) and B(ulb) with (see below)  manual aperture control.  The light meter indicates if you're in the wrong. (Follow the small needle with the large one.) ---- This is a EUR 1 thriftshop find 126-camera. The 126 stands for the format of pre-loaded film cassettes - similar to the more familiar Instamatic system. The cassettes are no longer for sale, so I cut an old cassette open and loaded it myself with 35 mm film, then duct-taped it shut. You can see the indicator window of the cassette with the "10". I cut and taped a piece of the old film and protection film to the window to stop light from exposing the new film. The sticker with "200-800" indicates that I'm using 200 ASA-film in the cassette but the camera is pre-set to expose at 800 ASA. This m