Roots

Last friday (man, I'm a whole week behind??) I spent the evening playing around with some vintage camera's I have to see if I could enlist any of them in this daily pic project. The top is a Konica c35. A cool little automatic rangefinder. It's got a f2.8 38mm lens, but is fully auto only, meaning that the light meter reads the scene and sets the appropriate aperture shutter speed from f2.8/30th to f14/650th. Unfortunately one of the leads broke off from the battery terminals. Here I was attempting to solder it back on. I can't solder.

The second is a Kodak Vigilant 620. I guess 620 film is still made somewhere. But it's not commonly available, and probably very expensive to acquire. So it's a museum piece.