Akarelle -- an odd duck but a rather pretty one

[nhchen]

I quite like the Akarelle and akarette cameras. They are all quite simple to take apart and service the shutter. Except for the early black paint akarettes I've got, all seem to suffer from bad quality chrome. Out of the lenses I've found I like the small 35mm xenagon, its small and quite sharp, and on the later Akarelle cameras you can use the whole viewfinder for it. I'm still looking for a 45mm 2.8 xenar, its a unit focus lens instead of the front cell focusing for the 50mm 3.5 xenar.

Akarelle and Akarette cameras by Nathan Chen, on Flickr

regards,
nathan