Too hot for a R/F cam...

[l.mar]

Summer in Chicago. Too hot to lug my Bessa-T through the street. Boo-hoo! 😉 Show me your pics taken with a little viewfinder cam (Oly XA-2, etc.)

These were taken with a Minox 35 EL, f 16 or so, Fortepan 100.

 

[Doug]

My dentist enjoys his work in a nice airconditioned dental clinic... 🙂 Taken with Canon ELPH Jr, Kodak APS 400BW film

 

[phototone]

Summer in Chicago. Too hot to lug my Bessa-T through the street. Boo-hoo! 😉 Show me your pics taken with a little viewfinder cam (Oly XA-2, etc.)

These were taken with a Minox 35 EL, f 16 or so, Fortepan 100.

I'm wondering if you don't need to clean that Minox lens, as they look a little hazy.
Is it the heat?

Here is one I took with a Minox 35EL

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[JoeFriday]

speaking of Chicago.. taken with an Olympus Stylus Epic

 

[Pherdinand]

It was quite some time when I last time used a "little viewfinder camera".
Anyway, this example is really old - from my teenager years, about 12-13 y ago. My friend changed alot since then.
Camera was a Smena 8m, FSU product. Very popular model in the eastern block in the eighties, cost almost nothing and it WAS actually availabe in the shops! Lens, 40mm f/4, some kind of industar i guess. Film, i don't know; possibly old outdated Svema64 from the fleamarket, also made in FSU, or some Azopan.

 

[l.mar]

Very cool pics from a very talented group of viewfinder cam photogs!

As for as any "haziness" in the first images, it is more likely the result of a cheap flat bed scan more than the lens --- the Minox lens is very sharp. Then again, maybe it was from dancing around on the hot pavement, trying to get into the faces of the musicians. 😛

Pherdinand, I still have my first camera, a Kodak X-15 --- a simple no- focus, fixed aperture (about f 11) fixed shutter speed (not sure what) viewfinder camera. 126 cartridge film is still available (color only) from Ferrania, and I have still have some old, out-dated Kodacolor --- one of these days, I'll run a roll through it...