It uses 35mm film. I opened this up and found that it has a roll of film in it waiting to take its first picture. That roll of film is most likely twenty years old. It most likely is no good any more for taking pictures. I'll just leave it there.
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| The lens has thread for taking a filter but a filter has not been placed on the camera. I think it is good practice to put an ultra violet (UV) filter on a camera's lens if at all possible if for no other reason than it protects the lens and keeps dust and fingerprints off it. Compared to lenses filters are inexpensive to replace. |
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| The lens cap is made in Hong Kong. The original one must have been lost. |
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| The bottom of the camera showing the film release button, the battery door cover, the threaded tripod mounting hole and, the manufacturer and country where the camera was made. |
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| This is the dial for selecting the film's ASA/DIN. ASA stands for American Standards Association. DIN stands for Deutsches Institut für Normung. Those standards for film speed have been replaced with ISO, International Organization for Standardization. The lever advances the film and the number in the small window indicates how many exposures have been taken. |
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| Here's the back open with a roll of film loaded with 400 ISO film. This was very fast film in its day. For a long time the common film was 64 ISO. One problem with faster film stocks is that they tended to have a much courser grain. In the late seventies film manufacturers, notably Kodak and Fuji, developed faster film stocks while maintaining a finer grain. |
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| This shows the back open with the back in full |
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| This is the battery box with a 4.5 volt battery installed. I was lucky that the battery had been in there so long without leaking. I am keeping it out, now. |
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| This shows the battery box empty. |
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