photo from week 126 - Boots Pakmatic 28

wedding bus, a photo by pho-Tony on Flickr.

The colours and subject matter somehow seemed to match the film and camera here.

photo from week 126 - Boots Pakmatic 28

reflected self-portrait with Boots Pakmatic camera and St. George's wig, a photo by pho-Tony on Flickr.

Another one shot at full aperture, this time to allow me to use the camera indoors. The depth of field was quite narrow, but I just about got away with it.

photo from week 126 - Boots Pakmatic 28

wild garlic, a photo by pho-Tony on Flickr.

I was pleasantly surprised by the image quality from this long expired film, it is very much better than my last experience with 126. The Pakmatic camera is fully manual, so I was able to use full aperture (f2.8) and the minimum focus distance, to throw all but the foreground plants out of focus.

Week 126 - Boots Pakmatic

Boots Pakmatic, a photo by pho-Tony on Flickr.

This was a charity shop find for £5. It has a range of shutter speeds and an f2.8 lens. There is a built in un-coupled selenium exposure meter, but the settings are all manual. Though branded as a "Boots" camera, it is in fact made by Braun of Nurnberg.
126 film is no longer made, and all that is available is long expired. I have a couple of ISO100 Boots brand films labelled develop before 1996, and have loaded one of these, I set the ISO (or rather ASA) on the meter to 50, as the film will probably have lost some sensitivity with age.

photo from week 125 - Coronet Midget

paxton pavillion, a photo by pho-Tony on Flickr.

The camera was made decades ago, when film was less sensitive, so this photo, taken in bright sunlight was quite over-exposed, a sluggish shutter might also be a factor.

photo from week 125 - Coronet Midget

hand sculpture, a photo by pho-Tony on Flickr.

It was rather fiddly, but my attempts to load some old 16mm Ilford FP4 into the Midget seemed to work. I don't think I'll be using this camera regularly, but at least I've squeezed a few images out of it.

Week 125 - Coronet Midget

Coronet Midget, a photo by pho-Tony on Flickr.

Very much a novelty, this camera has become quite collectable frequently fetching over £100 on Ebay, I didn't pay anything like that for mine, though it is not in first class condition.
I've loaded it with some re-spooled 16mm Ilford FP4 film.