No. 4: Adox Golf IIA.
That release. It's a plain stupid design!
This camera has all that I need. A good set of apertures, some exposure times, with B mode. Scale focusing. Okay, the shutter is stupid. I've added a big pin so I don't cause camera shake. Because with that big release you'll get it.
When you press the shutter you can hear three little clicks in close succession. I love it. All the secrets of producing a photograph in one press.
Below are photographs I made with Lomography's redscale film. I exposed it at 50 ASA.
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Look at those greens! I think that they are the strongest selling point of the redscale film for me.
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The Adox lens is really good unless you poke it directly into the sun or bright reflective surfaces.
No. 5: Meisupii Half
It reminds me of a tin of sardines.
This one's all aluminium. There's no focusing, just depth of field-control when choosing the aperture at f/8-16. It is a half-frame camera, riding on the wave of the Olympus Pen types of cameras manufactured in the same era. But this one's real simple/basic/primitive.
Below are the only photos I got out of this camera, since the winding was busted from the start.
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The classic furrowed brow - "is the darn shutter really moving?"
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Not winding properly.
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It's a boat!
No. 6: Halina 35X
A blunt copy of a far better camera.
It's a favourite of mine. You cock the shutter with a lever on the lens. Then it's all manual exposure and scale focusing.
It is all metal and heavy. The photographs it produces are flawed and dreamy and I love them!
I've made several posts about this camera here and here, and a lens mod here.
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