photo from week 249 - Nikon Nuvis 75

This was taken without flash, with the camera resting on a hand rail to steady it for a relatively slow shutter speed.

Week 249 - Nikon Nuvis 75

The Nuvis 75 uses the short-lived and now obsolete APS format. I think I paid about £2 for this one, and I really only bought it as it came with a couple of films which I intended to use in one of my more sophisticated APS cameras. Since I was given a supply of APS film earlier this year, I now feel able to use it in the more pedestrian APS models in my collection.

photo from week 248 - SupaSnaps Flicker

This is the closest I've come yet to a complete failure in my camera of the week project. The shutter was firing OK when I checked the camera prior to loading, by setting the shutter with the lever which is operated by the passing film perforation. While in use, I had my suspicions that the shutter wasn't firing, and I have no idea why it suddenly worked for just one of the 24 frames, a boring shot that was one of the last few to finish the film off before developing.
I quite like the pattern of all the blank frames, with the one little glimmer of hope from the week!

Week 248 - SupaSnaps Flicker

This was a promotional gift camera from SupaSnaps, it's an ultra-basic 110 model which doesn't even enclose the film cartridge in use. I'm not sure where it came from, it was in a box of junk cameras in my dad's garage.

photo from week 247 - Olympus XA

Another photo from the correfoc, this time a dragon is spraying fire at the legs and feet of the crowd!

photo from week 247 - Olympus XA

Even with ISO400 film, and in a brightly lit bathroom, this one was at the limits of hand-holdability.

photo from week 247 - Olympus XA

The Correfoc, or fire-run involves groups of people running through the streets spraying fireworks onto willing spectators, this was taken in the moment between ignitions.