TESTING 35MM CAMERAS

Hello everyone! 

This post is a little different, a change from all the previous Australia themes! Now i'm very into my photography, but since being home i haven't taken much unless it's on my phone. For a while now i've had a few cameras as decoration in my room, but i'd never tested to see if any of them work. 

A few weeks ago i decided to finally buy some film, the cheapest and least quality, but film nonetheless! It was purely to use as a tester to see what the outcome was, considering all of these cameras are older then me! 

The first camera i trialled was the Praktica Super TL2. This camera was very hard to google, and therefore it was just a case of working it out for myself. Saying that, it's the prettiest looking in my collection and therefore was hoping and praying that it would work... and it did! 

Colour wise, this camera produced the most vivid colours and it has a manual focus and therefore i was able to blur the background, or foreground depending on what i wanted. The shutter speed is quite slow and therefore my pictures turned out slightly blurry because i know that my hand isn't as steady as it should be. But mostly i'm quite happy with the way they turned out:

The next camera that i tested was the Minolta Hi-Matic GF. I liked this camera, for the whole vintage effect. This camera does have a working flash, and even in conditions that looked as though it wouldn't need the added brightness, it did in fact need it. This was the only down-side. Note to self: Flash on, most of the time! 

 Last but not least, i decided to test out my Hanimex 35X, which scouring the web i had found some positive feedback, but when i put it to the test it i only managed to get a few photos off as they had all interlinked and there's no way of seeing where one photo ended and another began. So was left with a few faded photos. Though the photo at the bottom was created when my film got stuck, resulting in an accidental layering of two different photos. 

 I do have a few more cameras that i wish to test, i just need to get more film, one of which i am quite excited over as it's a Canon, and therefore i am hoping will produce some reasonable photos. I also have another lens that goes with the Praktica, so some time this year i will test this out too! 

 If you have any 35mm film cameras that you can recommend, please leave a comment so i can check it out! 

Thanks for reading, xo