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Each month for a year I will use one pair of cameras, then next month switch to another pair. They are all fixed-lens compact cameras. I will use the same film stock in both cameras. Each month I will share my impressions from using the cameras, while showing the photographs I make. Part #7: November 2021 Film type: Fomapan 400 ASA exposed at 1600. The first camera is the AGFA Silette LK There's not much to say. There is full manual control of everything needed to make a photograph. Plus a selenium lightmeter which works just fine, as it turns out. This camera I have not used before. I did use a sibling a year before - a similar model, but with automatic exposure. Next up: AKA Akarette This is actually where I diverge from my own simple set of rules. The Akarette is a system camera. There are at least a 45, a 50 and a 75 mm lens for it. I have used a 50 mm Schneider-Kreuznach in the past, but here I used my 45 mm S-K. Why did I diverge? I only own the 45 lens and the camera h...

Each month for a year I will use one pair of cameras, then next month switch to another pair. They are all fixed-lens compact cameras. I will use the same film stock in both cameras. Each month I will share my impressions from using the cameras, while showing the photographs I make. Part #6: October 2021 Film type: Kodak/Fujifilm 800 ASA redscaled and exposed at 100 ASA. It took me more than seven months to get the films developed, and I didn't make any notes, so I don't have much to say about the photographic process. What I can tell you is that both cameras are favourites of mine. One - Beirette - is fully manually controlled, with a 45 mm. The other - Hi-Matic C - is semi-automatic, with a 40 mm. I wrote about both cameras in the past here and here , for instance.  The films: Redscaled Kodak and Fujifilm 800 ASA I redscaled two fast films and exposed them at 50-100 ASA. See how I use redscale here . Minolta Hi-Matic C photos These are the only two that came out witho...