The Canon Dial 35 was an unconventional half-frame 35mm camera with clockwork automatic film advance. It was made in Japan by Canon from November 1963. The Dial 35 was also sold as the Bell & Howell Dial 35.
The body had an unusual "portrait" format rectangular shape, with a short, wide-diameter lens barrel containing the CdS meter photocells window around the 28mm lens. Rotating the lens barrel set the speed of the Seikosha shutter; the aperture was set automatically. A button below the viewfinder could be pulled out to give manual aperture control, for manual exposure settings or flash. Film speed was set on a scale around the meter window.
Focus was set on a lever around the top of the lens barrel, with a display inside the viewfinder.
There was a cylindrical handle at the bottom, which also wound the clockwork mechanism. On the (users) left is an accessory shoe. The film ran vertically, from the cassette at the top to the take-up spool at the bottom, giving a landscape-format 24×18mm frame when the camera is upright.
Dial 35-2
The 35-2 has a black nameplate at the top in place of the engraved name and a longer-lasting clockwork motor. Speed range is increased to 1000ASA, the meter uses a different battery and a hot shoe is added.
Manufacturer: Canon
Introduced: Nov 1963
Film: 35mm 24×18mm Half-frame
Shutter: Seikosha 1/30–1/250s, with Flash sync
Film speed: 8–500 or 1000 ASA
Lens: Canon SE 28mm f/2.8 (5 elements in 3 groups), focus down to 0.8m
The Olympus AF-10 Super (Infinity Jr. in the US) of 1991 was a fully automatic 35mm compact camera, nicknamed "Picasso Mini Super" in Japan. It was part of the AF series.
I bought the Olympus Infinity Jr camera in a thrift store a few days ago. These cameras were introduced in the late 80s and are branded as Olympus AF-10 Super outside of North America, and also bears the pretentious nickname “Picasso Mini Super”. Actually I am not sure when they came out, the Olympus website has 1990, but I found newspaper and magazine reviews dated 1987. The lens is a fixed length Olympus 35mm f3.5 with 3 elements in 3 groups. The camera is totally automatic, including very simple film loading, and motorised film advance, DX film speed selection and so on. It takes two of the widely available AAA batteries – either lithium or alkaline – which is a real advantage when buying an older camera. A manual is available on-line at Orphan Cameras, a terrific resource for many manuals.
There is a built-in flash with a range of 0.65 to 4.5 m for ISO 100 and 0.65 to 9 m at ISO 400. It has a switch beneath the lens that allows turning the flash off, forcing it on for fill or putting it into the auto mode. Closing the clam shell returns it to auto mode, which can be annoying when it fires unexpectedly. There is however a very simple modification for that problem which has been well described here by Hamish Gill in his excellent website 35MMC. I will be making that mod on this camera for sure as I had the flash fire unexpectedly. At the time I did not understand that the slowest shutter speed was 1/45th, or I might not have reshot without the flash as the chances of getting a good shot without the flash are pretty slim since long exposures are out of the question.
The DX coding recognises ISO 50-1600 film and for non-DX coded film defaults to ISO 50. Even though it recognises all those film speeds, it only sets ISO 50, 100, 400 and 800 – I don’t know if it rounds up or down, but I am guessing down since the 1600 DX coding must be exposed as 800. There is no built-in over-ride for the DX reading although Hamish Gill also describes (here) how to recode the DX barcode on a film canister to shoot the entire film at a different ISO than it is rated. I have not tried it yet, but if I use am going to use these automated point and shoot cameras quite a lot, then some of them will require that intervention I think.
The camera focuses automatically via 5-zone active Infrared from 0.65m to infinity. It includes focus lock, achieved by partially depressing the shutter release button when aimed at the subject to be in focus and then, while keeping the pressure on the button, reframing the shot and finishing pushing the shutter. It seems to work OK, though getting the pressure right takes a bit of practice – it is assisted by a green light in the viewfinder which comes on when focus is locked.
According to the manual and with ISO 100 film the camera has an exposure range from EV 9 (f3.5 and 1/45th second) to EV 15 (f9, 1/400th). There is no other information about the shutter, other than that it is a programmed electronic shutter. From looking at the images which seem brighter in the very centre in all light I am assuming it opens as a polygon from the centre of the lens.
The self timer is activated by holding a button down on top of the camera and then depressing the shutter – rather complicated especially if the camera is carefully resting on a rock or other uneven surface. A red light shows on the front of the camera for 10 seconds, followed by flashing for 2 seconds before the camera fires. If you close the clamshell, the timer is cancelled. There is apparently a hack to allow a remote infrared? release, but the website is no longer up.
Lens: 35mm f/3.5
Autofocus: 5-zone active IR, 0.7m to infinity with focus lock
Auto-exposure.
Auto-load, wind and rewind of DX-coded film.
Integral flash with "auto," "off" and "fill in" modes. Flash Range: 4.5 m with 100-ASA film and 9 m with 400-ASA film.
Self-timer.
Tripod socket.
Power Source: 2 AAA alkaline batteries or CRA123A lithium .
Dimensions: 117x63x46mm
Weight: 210g
Other features: XA-style lens protection.
Also available with Quartz Date function.
The Quickmatic series were the only Olympus cameras to use 126 film.
The Quickmatic EE S was a simple viewfinder camera with a hot shoe and a selenium meter driving a programmed exposure (Electric Eye or EE). The meter window was around the lens. There were two variants, one with a Zuiko 36mm f:2.8 lens, the other with a Zuiko 36mm f:3.5 lens.
Load 126 cartridge film camera, Automatic exposure, Selenium Meter round the Lens, hot shoe, film transport leaver at back of camera, cable release socket, Lens: E.Zuiko 3.5/38mm. made by Olympus Japan,
Focus by estimating distance, programmed automatic exposure with selinium meter surrounding lens, shutter speeds 1/40 and 1/200, aperture range not specified, 36mm, f2.8 D.Zuiko lens.
Esta fotografia é do exemplar que possuo. Características
Fex/Indo (for France EXport) and (INDustrie Optique) is a French company that produced inexpensive camera models from the 1940s to the 1981. It was one of the few civil camera companies founded in times of WWII. When France was "under German occupation, Fritz Kaftanski formed an association with Lucien Bouchetal de la Roche in order to produce cameras under the mark FEX (for France EXport). Located in Lyon, this company became FEX-INDO and then INDO (INDustrie Optique). It stopped all activities in 1981". The wartime product was a wooden camera of poor qiality but with Angenieux lens. Later Kaftanski himself developed successful camera models like the bakelite camera Ultra-Fex. The main brand names were Fex, Weber/Fex and in the late years Indo.
Fonte: camera-wiki.org
The Ultra-Fex is a black plastic camera made in France by Fex/Indo, c1946-66. It produces 6x9cm images on 620 film.
Variations include:
Shutter release button on the camera body or on the extensible front.
Flash shoe (and location) or no flash shoe.
Extension tube made of metal or plastic.
Faceplate design.
Não consegui determinar o modelo exacto. Nesta página estão vários, mas não este especificamente.
Há referências a um livro onde estarão compilados todos os modelos: Fex - La Photo Toute Simple.
The Japanese company that would become Taron (ticky-tCKy-ticky-tow) was founded as Nippon Kōsokki Seisakusho(日本光測機製作所) and was based in Tokyo, Omori. The company began as the manufacturer of NKS shutters. These shutters were used in the 1940-42 Mamiya Six series. Its first camera, the Taroflex 6×6cm TLR, dates from 1943.
After the war the company reorganized as Nippon Kōsokki Kōgyō K.K. (日本光測機工業㈱) or Nihon Kōsokki Company Limited. During postwar reconstruction, it survived by making NKS shutters for other camera makers such as Fujica, Tokyo Kogaku Kikai (Topcon), Tougo-Do and Yashima Kogaku Seiki. The 1953 Silver Six folder and Silverflex TLR cameras used NKS shutters and were made by the similarly named Nihon Kōki K.K.
Starting in 1955, Nihon Kōsokki began making its own Taron line of 35mm rangefinder cameras. It was still based in Tokyo, Omori. The company was renamed K.K. Taron (㈱タロン) after its own products in 1959. The company disappeared in the latter half of the 1960's.
The Taron company was founded in 1943, and at that time was known as Nippon Kosokki. After WWII the company started producing cameras named "Taron", and in 1959 changed its name to reflect this brand. The company ceased to exist around 1969.
Produced from 1961 by Taron, the Eyemax is a 35mm rangefinder with a coupled selenium lightmeter. It was available with a 1.8/45 or a 2.8/45 Taronar lens. The shutter could be a Citizen MXV or a Copal MXV. Some cosmetic differences can be observed between the cameras produced at the beginning and the ones produced at the end of the production period.
The camera gets its distinctive look and name from the bulge above the viewfinder which houses the selenium cell for the built in light meter. At the time these type of light meters were often referred to as an ‘electronic eye’ so the name Eyemax therefore becomes a natural choice.
The output from the cell drives a meter needle which is visible in the viewfinder and the exposure is set by altering the aperture and shutter speed rings on the lens until the meter needle aligns with a fixed marker at the top of the viewfinder. On my particular camera this doesn’t work, but since I can’t find any ‘auto’ setting, and there is no way to convert a meter reading into an aperture / shutter combination I’m pretty confident this is how it should work.
Focusing is achieved with a rangefinder visible in the centre of the viewfinder. There is quite a short adjustment range which covers the full focal range of the camera, about 0.8m to infinity. The rangefinder window is quite a distance from the viewfinder window which leads to a good amount of separation of the images, and therefore accurate focusing.
The shutter speed range is typical of a camera of this age, from 1/500 sec to 1 sec with a B setting and the lens is nice and fast with apertures ranging from f/1.8 to f/16. This gives an EV range of 2 to 17 if the B setting is ignored and the ASA range of 10 to 800 is also typical of cameras of the day, matching the speed of film commonly sold at the time. Being a leaf shutter it’s synced for flash at all speeds, and has a sync socket on the front of the camera with a switch for X or M sync on the lens.
Talking of the fast lens, it’s a Taronar 45mm f/1.8 unit which has a purple/yellow reflection under light suggesting it has some sort of reflection reducing coating applied. I don’t know if it’s single coated or multicoated, but going by the date of manufacture and the brightness of the reflection, I would think it’s probably a single coating.
There is a frame counter built into the top of the frame advance lever which has to be set manually as the camera is loaded with film.
Shanghai Seagull Camera Ltd is a Chinese camera maker located in Shanghai, China. Seagull is the oldest camera maker in China. The product line of Seagull includes TLR cameras, SLR cameras, folding cameras, CCD and SLR camera lenses, large-format cameras, film, night vision scopes, and angle viewfinders. Seagull's cameras usually use basic, time-tested mechanical designs that require no batteries. Seagull has made 21 million cameras since it was founded in 1958. Some Seagull cameras are distributed through the Lomography company.
Seagull adopted Minolta's manual focus SLR lens mount and camera design under license, and continues to produce it long after Minolta moved on to autofocus cameras.
Seagull (海鸥 = hǎi ōu = seagull) is the brand name used from 1964 by several camera factories situated in the Shanghai region, simply named Shanghai Camera Factory No.1, No. 2, No. 3, ... etc.. In the literature they are collectively referred as Shanghai Camera Factory. Perhaps they are most widely known for their fascinating Shanghai 58 rangefinder camera, based on the Leica IIIa, which evolved with some modifications borrowed from Canon and FED, and more recently the Seagull DF cameras, a manual focus 35mm SLR range. The first ones were simply copies of Minolta SR models since they were the easiest to copy. Later the cameras were produced with licence from Minolta. Some SR mount lenses of Seagull's own brand Haiou were made too.
The Seagull-4 series of TLR cameras, introduced in 1964 and distributed worldwide, is a continuation of the earlier Shanghai TLR; itself quite possibly produced using outdated Japanese tools and manufacturing equipment. These cameras are usually found with knob wind, but the Seagull 4A has lever wind. There are also a range of Seagull 35mm rangefinder models, as well as a range of Seagull folding roll film cameras typical of the immediate post war European production.
Several Seagull camera accessories are known, for example the electronic flashgun SG-100 and several accessory angle finders for SLRs.
In 1976 three of the Shanghai camera factories moved together into the new factory Shanghai General Camera Factory in Song Jiang County. The 35mm SLR series Seagull DF-... was continued there. The Seagull CL-A light meter was made in the Shanghai No. 2 Photographic Equipment Factory.
In 1999 600.000 units (cameras and lenses) could be produced per year. In 2001 Seagull planned to produce digital cameras for Kodak.
Esta fotografia é do exemplar que possuo. Características Chinese made camera, single use, with 27 exposures, Iso 400 and embedded flash. Modelo Só conheço este modelo. Manual Sítios de referência Vídeos
The Voigtländer Dynamatic was produced sometime in the early 1960's late 1950's. It was a 35mm automatic camera with a selenium 3-cell around the lens. It was offered in four models the Dynamatic, Dynamatic Delux and the Dynamatic II, and Dynamatic II Delux. The Dynamatic featured a Lathar f/2.8 50mm lens with a Prontormat S-V shutter 1/30 - 1/300, the Delux had the Color-Skopar f/2.8 50mm lens. It used a zone focus system. The Dynamatic had limited manual control options and was marketed as a SnapShooter camera as opposed to the more advanced controls offered in the Dynamatic II . It did have a threaded mount for a cable release, a flash socket and center mounted accessory shoe.
Manufacture: Voigtlander
Country: Germany
Years Produced: Early 1960's - (estimated)
Type: Ridged Body Fixed Lens
Film Type: 35mm
Lens Type: Lanthar f/2.8 50mm or Color-Skopar f/2.8 50mm.
The Dynamatic series consists of four models.
All of them are automatic with a selenium cell around the lens.
"Deluxe" models have a chrome front panel.
Dynamatic II cameras are similar to Dynamatics but with a coupled rangefinder, a 1/500 shutter and a Color-Skopar lens instead of a Lanthar.
1959 - 24x36 Film -
Prontormat S-V shutter 1/300. Color-Skopar 2.8/50mm.
Shutter priority automatic camera. Selenium cell around the lens.
Aperture needle visible in finder and on top.
