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I've used mine for colour transparencies, stopping down about half a stop from a meter reading, as the shutter speeds on a camera of this age will be almost certainly slower than the marked speeds. Results - very good indeed.

I just took some harman phoenix and rolled it inbetween some backing paper in my darkbag.. gonna take 3.5x4 sprocket photos :3

an interesting video, i too own a baldur but mine in 6x9cm is slightly different to yours in that it doesnt have the top lever on the face plate, no tripod screw and also it has two red windows on the back. it carries the DRP marking on the front lens indent along with the usual BALDUR and Zeiss Ikon logos

Picked this camera up for £10 yesterday and fell in love with it - I use Mirrorless and never got into film but currently shooting my first roll on Kodak Gold 200 - this video was very useful as I didn’t know where to start with this camera

£4.99 in 2024

I just saw 1 of these today at an antique shop and found your video. Thanks for the great overview! I’m going back to look at it a little harder and hopefully purchase it!!!

This video was great! I want to start shooting on film and will use my grandfather's chinon. He is not alive anymore but we share the interest of photography. Do you have any favorite film to use with it?

I have one of these coming. I used a borrowed mark 11 as well and the results were very good

Thank for detail explanation. May be it is worthy to mention that the frame line of viewfinder is shifting horizontally when turning the focus lever, thus parallax corrected. Also to actuate the self-timer, you do not need to turn the shutter to T-mode.

I have one too. Great coat pocket camera. Good luck with the baby Elan, I had two Elan +2s in the past 🙂

I get my Canonet EE out for a roll mayhap twice a year. It's a large camera compared to the later Canonet models.

Camera deserves a good clean.

I have a Voightlander Brillant which also looks like a TLR but is not. At least you can focus the Brillant.

Hi, where do you send the film roll to be developed please? Thanks.

This brings back a flood of memories. My first "serious" camera was the Canonet QL19. I remember going through rolls of film and then going to the fotomat down the street.

I’d love to see a review of the Olympus AM100

The pictures are so good! I need to look for one of these cameras. Thank you for the video.

With the unbelievably massive success of the Fuji x100 series of cameras, I don’t know why canon doesn’t make a modern version of this camera. It would fly off the shelves.

Yes I have heard of it and been tempted to look at one closely on Ebay but never got round to persuading myself to buy one🤑😇😎😬almost but not quite !?! I have too many cameras already, but I look forward to your observations and photo shoot results. Cheers.

Picked up one today at an antique store for 15$, conveniently I also had 120 film coming in the mail today, can't wait to take some pictures tomorrow with my century old box camera lol

Nice one! Looking forward to seeing some results.

My first camera was a Smena 8M , some 45 years ago and school club , still have it and still working well, much less fils through spoiled by Nikon and digital. But bringing good memories. Very simple to use .

Apart from the photographs being over exposed due to film choice as mentioned, they are surprisingly good for a plastic lensed camera. I actually have one but haven't used it yet, I might just run a film through it, cheers. I have a spare shutter module if anyone needs one.

Its basically the English cousin of the Agfa Clack 🙂

The Early Days of Photography was 1955? That's the Golden Age.

I have just taken possession of one of these, turfed out from the depths of a store room at the school where I work. This has been a really useful video and Iwill watch the others. The one I have is in really good condition and also has a spool in it, but there is a bit of damage to the bellows. Can you give me some idea of the best way to deal with repairing it? Any information will be much appreciated. Thank you.

Kodak retina

Almost the same as the low-end (if that's the right term) Ricoh cameras. I've had a Ricoh KR10 since about 1982 which still works fine. Cheap & cheerful does not mean cheap and nasty. Also, you're not going to cry into your cornflakes if it falls into the sea!

I still use my EOS 5. I have several other models too, and a 5 D mk1.

I have one. Very nice camera.

10:01 If you clean this part of the camera, it will close way better. Use a cotton swap with some 70% alcohol (ketonatus).

Anyone like to suggest alternative flash units for this

The pictures look great! I'd love to see some color photos next time if possible, tho... maybe w some Kodak gold 200

The x sync is a more useful 1/60 of a second per the Canon website.

The woodland frames are great! Can’t find fault with any of them… and that lens is nice and sharp. I read an article where someone used a bottle of 100 year old Rodinal and it worked just fine. Great developer, one of my favourite quinone based soups.

Chinon CA, CX, CA-4, CE-4, CE-4s, CE-5, CG-5, CP-X, CP-5, CP5s, CP-6, CP-7m, CP-9AF.....

This Chinon CM4 was introduced to market as early as 1982' and reigned up to 1990'.

Great review. I just snagged one off ebay for $59USD *Mint - Virtually new* open box. I would like to see What the ilford 125 looks like

foma 400 is my vote. i used some foma 100 and had decent resutls. some of the best pictures were taken when I handed this camera to a friend, no fuss, they managed to use it just fine!

Good to see you back, David, and with a lovely little basic camera. I’m curious to see the results from the Agfapan. Looking forward to part two!

Hurrrah for the glorious return of the Reluctant Photographer!

Despite it's apparent shortcomings, these are excellent cameras. What makes it worth having is if it's fitted with a standard 50mm Canon lens, as they are simply excellent. Despite having far more sophisticated cameras, I love the sheer simplicity of frame, (manual) focus and shoot with the Canon T50. It's nice to forget all the ritual of adjusting aperture, speed, ev compensation etc. The only thing I don't like is the noisy auto wind which does indeed remind me of a point and shoot compact. My T50 with a 50mm f1.8 lens consistently produces great images, which is all that really matters. .

I’ve got the T90 and it’s an excellent camera. I prefer my A-1 though, because it’s lighter. I have a few EOS film bodies and I use my 500, fitted with the 40mm f2.8 most of the time. The FD 35mm f2.8 is a lens worth getting, if you haven’t already got one.

Thank you - great video.

I friend gave me one today because he could not open it. Neither did i. Here at home i managed to open it. It looks very good on the in- and outside. There is an empty roll from Gevaert in it Gevaert is from Belgium and is now called Agfa Gevaert. I also jave the brown leather pouch with sling with it. Can i bring such film roles to a photoshop or better do i have to develop them by myself in a darkroom? Regards from the Belgium Ardennes.

I love my cm-4, the red light on the front is for the self timer, but to keep the cost down they didn't need to have different body cases for the different models, so the light is in the same place on all of them just the self timer switch is added I'm the other models, also the auto Chinon lens isn't the original for the cm-4 that came with a cosinon by cosina, the auto Chinon lens is for the ce-4 which had aperture priority that the cm-4 does not.

The shutter operates at all speeds without batteries. (Fully mechanical Seiko shutter) So even if you are stranded without batteries the camera is still operational. The batteries are only there for the meter.

Thanks fir the video, Does the Pentax SP1000 accept M42 screw-mount lenses or Pentax bayonet lenses?

I am about to return the camera cuz it's so complicated until I saw the pictures in the end.....amazing....