Week 261 - Barclaycard SW-6

In most respects, this is just another ultra-basic plastic 35mm camera, but this one has the added feature of a close up setting, a little lever which shifts the focus of the lens to 0.6-1.2m. This particular example is branded by Barclaycard, and was presumably some kind of corporate freebie.

photo from week 260 - Canon Pellix

One unusual feature of the Pellix is the fact that the viewfinder doesn't go black during an exposure, as the mirror is semi-silvered and remains fixed. This meant that I could keep my subject in view while I waved the camera around with the shutter open, before firing a separate flash with a blue gel attached.

photo from week 260 - Canon Pellix

I didn't bother metering this one, simply used 1/30th second at full aperture, as I knew the film would need all the light I could comfortably hand hold.

photo from week 260 - Canon Pellix

This is a bit of a dull time of year, so I livened it up with a green/orange split filter that I picked up in a £1 rummage box in a camera shop.

Week 260 - Canon Pellix

I hadn't heard of the camera until I found it in a charity shop (complete with another lens and flashgun) for £10. At first I thought it was broken, as the mirror didn't move, but Google told me that this is a fixed, semi-transmitting mirror, to allow metering to take place near the film plane. The downside is that you loose light through the mirror, effectively reducing the aperture of the lens.

photo from week 259 - Rollei Nightbird Single Use Camera

This is a more typical redscale result, cropped square after scanning. The results from the Nightbird were mildly disappointing, I have used a stand alone roll of the film in my Vivitar Ultrawide and Slim in the past, but that was in autumn when there is more light around.

photo from week 259 - Rollei Nightbird Single Use Camera

There was just about enough light to produce an image using the available light from a window with the sun shining in.