photos from week 223 - Bencini Minicomet

Two more photos from Budapest, the inside and outside of the Eastern Main Railway Station. You can see from this full width scan that the camera achieves 24 exposure per roll but using less than the full width of the negative

photo from week 223 - Bencini Minicomet

The Minicomet is a good, if very basic camera to take on holiday as it is so small, at the time it was made, the ability to squeeze 24 exposures onto a roll of 127 film would also have been useful. I took mine to Budapest, and this is one of the typical tourist snapshots that I made.

Week 223 - Bencini Minicomet

I've never come across another camera that produces 24 images on a roll of 127 film. I found this one in a car boot sale a couple of years ago, it had a film in it, and I finished that off and developed it, the images were very degraded, and I decided that I would use a fresh film in it at some point. The time has come, and I've loaded it with my last roll of Macocolor colour negative film.

photos from week 222 - Konica AA-35

Two giant spring flowers that appeared in Sheffield city centre this week.

photo from week 222 - Konica AA-35

There was just about enough light to take this indoor photo, the auto-focus seems to have done a reasonable job.

photos from week 222 - Konica AA-35

Half-frame cameras are ideal for making in-camera panoramic sequences, this is a picture of the fountains in Sheffield's Peace Gardens, dyed yellow to mark the forthcoming Tour de France event.

Week 222 - Konica AA-35

I found this in a local flea market a couple of weeks ago. At first glance it looks like a disc camera, and given it's scruffy state, I nearly didn't pick it up, but when I did I realised it was a half frame 35mm camera. There was no battery in it, so no way of knowing if it worked, but for £3 I decided it was worth a gamble. Back home, after a bit of Googling, I found a manual for it and put the correct battery in. It all seems to work, so I loaded it with some Agfa Vista film from Poundland.