This toy camera from the late 1950s/early 60s has a really bland lens and I'm not planning to use it anymore, but I did get a few nice shots from my last roll. I thought it would be fun to shoot a Ferrania-branded film (Ferrania Orto) in a Ferrania camera (Ferrania Eura). It's been giving me loose rolls and the film keeps slipping as I advance it, plus its one shutter speed is very slow, 1/30, so you need to use slow films unless you're shooting around dawn or dusk. A lot of toy cameras from that era had slow shutter speeds since slow films were the norm back then, but the Holga is a lot easier to use and I prefer the images I get from it.
bjhurley wrote:
In the end, I decided to flip the lens on the Ferrania Eura to see if that makes the images look more like they're from a toy camera. It worked.
madNbad wrote:
I've decided to dig out the tripod and use it in combination with the Yashica D. After a less than successful start, the first roll slipped out of the take up spool and I couldn't figure out why the shutter kept firing as soon as it as cocked until I realized the cable release was locked in the down position, things got a bit better. Since the cataract surgery, my close distance vision isn't as close as I was hoping for and I often need extra light to see small numbers, like shutter speeds and f stops. I kept carrying the camera/tripod combination around looking for a patch of sunlight to make adjustments. I now have a small flashlight added to my Yashica kit. I found it was easier to use the focusing magnifier without my glasses and am looking forward to getting more practice.
Your post makes me laugh - remembering my first outing with my fixed Yashica A, and my bad eyes. Two toddlers running circles around me, as I tried focusing - tipping the cameras in the correct direction. I thought - "anyone looking at this would think what is that old fool doing" - and burst out laughing. The grandkids stop for a couple seconds and it got me a couple keepers.
