Vintage 35MM Toy Cameras- Premier PC-80 & Time Magazine, Lomography, Working
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You are bidding on a great set of two vintage toy cameras. They are 35mm film cameras and becoming popular for Lomography, or using old analog film cameras to achieve an artistic interpretation. The Premier PC-80 is kind of a toy camera. It has a f6.3 50mm Premier "glass lens", probably with settable aperture, maybe switchable from sunny to cloudy. There's also a numeric aperture scale, but beginning with f5.6 while the lens speed is only f6.3. The camera has also an optical viewfinder, It has a hot shoe. Thus the shutter seems to be flash synchronized, The camera has even a release cable thread in the metal release button. Means of film transport is a thumb-wheel with exposure counter, and means of film rewind is a metal knurl. The camera has a curved film plane which may mean that its lens is of poor quality or has at least a significant curvature of field. The camera became renowned as promotional gift from household-machine maker Whirlpool. Comes with a lens cap, strap and the shutter works. The Time Magazine Camera was a 35mm toy camera given out free with subscriptions of Time Magazine. Unlike other toy cameras, however, the lens is actually of reasonable quality and made of glass, and the pictures it takes are fairly sharp. While the Time Magazine badging is the best known, the camera was also distributed with Sports Illustrated,
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