Week 356 - Zeiss Ikon Ikomatic A

Another 126 camera which is a cut above the basic. This one by Zeiss Ikon has an automatic exposure system, but it no longer works. The aperture remains at about the half way point, and the shutter only works on one setting, when placed in the flash setting it acts as a "B" setting, but I'm sure this is not meant to be the case.
With 126 film being scarce, I transferred the part used film from past week's camera, so I only have a few exposure to play with this week.

photo from week 355 - Minolta Autopak 600-X

This is the exterior of the studio of the artist Joan Miro. I thought the square elements of the building fitted well with the square format of 126.

photo from week 355 - Minolta Autopak 600-X

Indoor mirror self-portraits can be a challenge for 126 cameras, but this one has focussing, and exposure control, so it coped fine in the relatively low light.

photo from week 355 - Minolta Autopak 600-X

I took the Minolta to Palma, Mallorca. This was taken near the finishing line for the Palma Marathon, and shows an award ceremony with the cathedral in the background.

Week 355 - Minolta Autopak 600-X

The Minolta Autopak 600-X is one of the higher spec 126 cameras, most were simple point and shoots, but this one has zone focusing, an f2.8 lens, and automatic exposure control. Of course the film is now obsolete, and only expired stock is available. I've loaded it with a fairly recent cartridge of Solaris ISO 200 colour negative film.

photo from week 354 - "Dogs show up in every photo" - Novelty Camera

You can just make out the dog in the sky, on the camera packaging it implied that the dog images were not superimposed on the taken image, their example against a clear blue sky shows a very well defined dog.

photo from week 354 - "Dogs show up in every photo" - Novelty Camera

The results were very disappointing, the dog images were pre-exposed onto the film, but were very faint, and on many photos were all but invisible, having been "drowned out" by the light areas in the scene. This indoor shot is the only one to clearly show a dog!

Week 354 - "Dogs show up in every photo" - Novelty Camera

This bizarre novelty camera has pictures of dogs already imprinted on the negatives, with six different designs. Other than that it is a basic single use point and shoot camera.

photo from week 353 - Exakta TL 500

No problems using an SLR indoors, this was shot at f2.8

photo from week 353 - Exakta TL 500

Childrens' drawings on the windows of the Crucible Theatre, shot at full aperture to throw the background out of focus.

photo from week 353 - Exakta TL 500

This was taken in the dimly lit Crucible auditorium, I braced the camera against a seat for the 1 second exposure.

Week 353 - Exakta TL 500

The TL 500 is one of the last "Exakta" range, it bears little relation to the original Exakta SLRs, and this one even has an M42 lens mount instead of the Exakta bayonet. It's in good working order, but not of any particular interest.

photo from week 352 - Le Clic Caption Camera

One of the "Herd of Sheffield" elephants, seen here outside Park Hill Flats.

photo from week 352 - Le Clic Caption Camera

"Merry Christmas" was maybe not the most appropriate caption for this shot, unless of course you live in Australia!

photo from week 352 - Le Clic Caption Camera

The numbers that indicate the caption chosen are very small and seem to be worn away as well, so caption choice was a bit hit and miss. This time I got lucky with a photo of my grandson.

Week 352 - Le Clic Caption Camera

This is a point and shoot camera with the added feature of being able to select 12 different captions to appear on the negative.