{"id":147,"date":"2008-07-15T22:56:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2008-07-27T21:02:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T13:02:28","slug":"2-cameras-2-test-rolls-few-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"2 cameras, 2 test rolls, few survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two long delayed test rolls on two of my favourite cameras that I found in eBay. First is a Votar Flex made by a company called Haking in Hong Kong. It is a TLR but works more like a Diana\/Holga camera. So, it takes away all the &#8216;pain&#8217; from shooting with a TLR &#8230; no focusing, no shutter speed settings and it has just 3 aperture values just like the Diana\/Holga cameras.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/volar-flex-test-roll\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The test was quite a mess. I forgot to check the specifications of the camera, thus I did&#8217;t know what was the minimum focusing distance. I went too close to the subjects and thus some of the subjects in the foreground were not focused. Secondly &#8230; I didn&#8217;t know what was the shutter speed! I fired some shots while walking and ended up with many blurred shots. I kinda like them, but I know some purists might feel like spitting at them. Muwahahaha!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/volar-flex-test-roll\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Next &#8230; the AMI 66 camera from Poland. This Diana\/Holga-like camera is a beauty (if you love plastic cameras). With some funny white polka-dots around the lens and a red dog logo &#8230; I&#8217;m sure many will fall in love with it&#8217;s cuteness. Okay, enough of being vain. The test shots &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bad news. The rear cover popped open one day when I shoved it into my camera bag. Yeah, exposed frames down the drain. As for those who escaped this disaster, only a handful turned out fine. The rest? Way underexposed. Lesson learned &#8230; AMI loves the sun and I love AMI!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/ami-66-test-roll\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>ngg_shortcode_1_placeholder","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two long delayed test rolls on two of my favourite cameras that I found in eBay. First is a Votar Flex made by a company called Haking in Hong Kong. It is a TLR but works more like a Diana\/Holga camera. So, it takes away all the &#8216;pain&#8217; from shooting &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link bs-book_btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=147\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-with-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}