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Botscura (talk) 13:01, 11 December 2013 (PST)
hello
Hi
I'm not a spambot but am interested in cameras (esp 1960-90 non autofocus compacts)
hello, great to see more additions!
Looking through your LCA additions.. just wondering if you think it's wiser to include specs for Lomography's LC-A+ products on LOMO LC-A product page? I think it may make more sense with it put on Lomography LOMO LC-A+. Also with the original having a direct link to the Lomography version. From handling, both products are different even though they look the same, as the original is more of a cheap well built camera, while the lomography plus version more like a cheaply built camera. That why I made it as a separate page, but maybe separate pages are too confusing? Maybe we should not treat them as separate products? I dunno. --Tkmedia (talk) 18:45, 27 December 2013 (PST)
Time camera discussion point- feel free to tweak. Proposals for change to the time camera page
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| The ubiquitous Time camera image by Bracket ツ (Image rights) |
The Time Magazine Camera was a series of 35mm toy cameras given out free with subscriptions of Time Magazine.
Several version exist (McKnown's - need to fix the quote). Most have a 50mm 1:6 Plastic lens with a choice of aperture settings. However, one version features a glass lens of reasonable quality and the pictures it takes are fairly sharp.
While the Time Magazine branding is the best known, the cameras were also distributed as promotional items for companies like Sports Illustrated, Caesars and Barclaycard as well as under other branding like the Franka NX-40.
Many of the cameras featured a standard hot shoe on the top of the camera, and several other features not usually found on toy cameras, such as a coupled frame counter and a choice of apertures.
The pictured Time camera's "Kinetic Optical Color Lens" may indicate a connection to other products branded Kinetic; but given the profusion of different brands used this is hard to determine.
Photos
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| Camera with Franka badging image by Arty Smokes (Image rights) |
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| Camera with Caesars badging image by John Kratz (Image rights) |
Technical data Glass lens version:
- Fixed focus 50mm single-element glass lens
- One shutter speed of about 1/100th sec, no B
- Variable aperture from about f/5.6 to about f/16 (marked as "cloudy" to "sunny"
- Viewfinder
Technical data Kinetic Optical Color lens version:
- Fixed Focus 50mm plastic lens
- fixed shutter speed
- Variable Aperture with 4 settings from f/6 to f/16 , marked both in f-stops and weather pictograms
- Simple viewfinder
- Hoteshoe mount for flash
