Week 338 - Zeiss Ikon Tenax II

This camera belonged to my late father, it is one of the more sophisticated 35mm Zeiss cameras, and was first made in the late 1930s. Unusually for a 35mm camera, it takes sqaure negatives, menaing that you get more then 50 exposures from a standard 36 exposure roll. The f2 40mm Sonar lens has a coupled rangefinder, and the Compur shutter gives a full range of speeds.
I loaded it with ISO 200 Fomapan black and white film.

photo from week 337 - Olympia Toy Camera Outfit

One of the giant signs from the annual Peace in the Park festival in Sheffield, this was a dull, overcast day.

photo from week 337 - Olympia Toy Camera Outfit

The indoor self-portrait was inevitably underexposed, but I was satisfied to get anything at all on the negative.

photo from week 337 - Olympia Toy Camera Outfit

The results from this toy camera were as bad as I expected! In addition to the poor image quality the accuracy of the viewfinder is lamentable.

Week 337 - Olympia Toy Camera Outfit

This is one of several toy cameras that are made to look superficially like a genuine SLR. In reality this is a single speed, fixed aperture, fixed focus camera. It even contains metal weights to mkae it feel like a "proper" camera. This one actually has interchangeable lenses, decorated with false aperture and focus scales.

photos from week 336 - Ilford Sprite 35

Three of the photos were grossly overexposed, they were all taken with the camera angles upwards, I can only assume that the shutter gets sticky at certain angles. This is a composite of two consecutive shots.

photo from week 336 - Ilford Sprite 35

This indoor shot was predictably underexposed, but has just about been rescued by post-processing. The focus on this camera is fixed, and I suspect the optimum distance is somewhat further away than I was in this one.

photo from week 336 - Ilford Sprite 35

The results from the Sprite 35 were rather disappointing, particularly at f8 and f11, I think this one was taken at f16, and the quality is better than most of the shots.

Week 336 - Ilford Sprite 35

The Sprite 35 is a very chunky plastic camera from the early 1960s. It has a fixed focus lens and a single shutter speeds, but three apertures, f8, f11 and f16. Unusually for a 35mm camera, the sprocket holes are not used to wind the film on.

photos from week 335 - Vivitar IC 101

As a change from the joiner collages, this is three separate frames taken inside the Guggenheim Museum.

photos from week 335 - Vivitar IC 101

More photos from Bilbao, this time of the iconic Guggenheim Museum.

photos from week 335 - Vivitar IC 101

This is certainly a cheap and cheerful camera, with rather poor image quality. Rather than attempt to take decent snapshots, I decided to have fun with simple joiner images. This is the Cathedral in Bilbao.