Beware of pressing the shutter release before tensioning the shutter with the lever beside the lens. Halina 35X (1959) Second-hand price | £10-15 / $10-20 approx.Īnother small Leica look-alike, boasting shutter speeds of 1/25-1/200sec and a 45mm f/3.5 Halina lens whose quality, frankly, is adequate but not great. If the viewfinder is a little small for your tastes, look for the parallax-correctable sports finder that slips into the accessory shoe. There’s an option to lock both together to maintain the same exposure as f-stops or shutter speeds are changed. A great many variations were made, of which, the one illustrated has a 45mm f/3.5 Schneider Reomar lens, with apertures and shutter speeds set on rings around the rim. With the Kodak name behind it and an ancestry that started with the Retina, went on to folding Retinettes and finished with solid body variations, there’s not much to go wrong here. The shutter is tensioned by the film turning a sprocket as it is wound on and so won’t fire without a film loaded. Here’s a palm-sized camera with a well-respected f/3.5 Color Skopar lens and shutter speeds of 1-1/500sec. Check carefully before buying because Pax focusing rings have a tendency to seize up. It sports a 45mm f/3.5 coated triplet lens and shutter speeds of 1/10-1/300sec. Looking a lot like a Leica II only smaller, this was the first in a line of Pax cameras that stretched into the 1960s.
#Best 35mm film manual#
We can’t leave this subject without dipping a toe back a little more into the past, to a time when cameras had fixed lenses, viewfinders but no rangefinders, no metering, offered manual operation as the only option and a battery was something you put in a torch, not a camera… Pax 35 (1952) Second-hand price | £25-35 / $20-50 approx. Also, loading the cameras is very fiddly.īest fixed lens 35mm film camera for basic simplicity To retract the lens, the film must first be wound on and then a small stud to the side of the lens depressed. Be aware that the lens is pulled out and twisted to click-stop into its shooting position, but don’t try to push it back the same way. The alternative is the C35, which is totally manual without a meter. Photo credit: John Wade Rollei C35 Second-hand price | £140 / $120 approx. The B35 from the top, showing the metering system and with the lens extended for shooting. Other than having fixed lenses, these later Konicas resemble and handle a lot like a Leica M3.īest fixed lens 35mm film cameras – Ricoh Ricoh 500GX Second-hand price | £25-40 / $40-70 approx. Konica Auto S / Konica Auto S2 / Konica Auto S3 Second-hand price | £60-£280 / $80-300įor a more modern design, including lever film wind and top mounted shutter release, fast forward to the 1960s for the very stylish Konica Auto S, S2 and S3, all of which work manually.
As well as having old-fashioned knobs for film winding, they also show their age by having a shutter release and cocking mechanism on the rim of the lens. You’ll find them with f/3.5 or f/2.8 lenses and coupled rangefinders. The Konica I, II and III were made during the 1950s, each model with several variations and subtly different specifications. Konica might not be a name that springs immediately to mind when selecting a second-hand camera, but the company made some superb 35mm fixed lens models.
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