photos from week 225 - Nikon Pronea-S

A series of four consecutive frames, scanned to include the sprocket holes and edge markings.

Week 225 - Nikon Pronea-S

The Pronea uses the APS cassettes which are no longer made. APS (Advanced Photo System) was introduced in 1996 as a fool-proof amateur format with a range of features tied in with a built in magnetic coating on the film which recorded various data to instruct the processing equipment how to treat the image.
Soon after it was launched, digital camera became affordable for the mass market and the APS format was destined for the history books.
This fully featured automaitc SLR came from a charity shop, the ultimate destination of many consumer level film cameras from the 1990s.

photo from week 224 - Keystone Everflash 3570

The very last frame, or part-frame, on the roll. This shows the piercings where the film clip gripped the film as it hung to dry. This one was taken with the built in flash.

photos from week 224 - Keystone Everflash 3570

This was the last photo I took before leaving Budapest, where I bought this camera only a few hours earlier. It's a crude in-camera panorama taken in the airport departure lounge.

photo from week 224 - Keystone Everflash 3570

For a camera costing around 50p, the results aren't bad. This one is inevitably underexposed as it was taken indoors, albeit on a bright day and near the window.

Week 224 - Keystone Everflash 3570

This is a very basic, very cheap, point and shoot 35mm camera, but I was drawn to it by the barn doors style lens cover. This is an unusual feature and is generally associated with more sophisticated and expensive cameras, most famously the Voigtlander Vitessa that I used in week 89.
I found it in the "broken cameras" basket at a camera shop in Budapest that we walked past in the last hour or so of a visit to the Hungarian capital. Not long before I had paid 180 forints (approximately 50p in UK money) to use a public toilet, this camera was priced at 190 forints, and a cursory examination suggested that it was in working order, despite the label on the box, and the warning form the shop assistant. I had nothing to loose at this price, and shortly after leaving the shop, having found some shade, I loaded it with a roll of Agfa Vista film from Poundland, so the film cost twice as much as the camera! I shot most of the roll in Budapest, then, having ascertained that the flash was working (I don't carry spare batteries with me) I finished it off at the Sharrow Lantern Festival in Sheffield. Results to follow.

photos from week 223 - Bencini Minicomet

A crude in-camera panorama made by slightly under-advancing the film to get a slight overlap between adjacent images. This was a brightly lit glazed courtyard, so there was just about enough light for this single speed, fixed aperture camera.