Felica Film Camera - First Photos

Best photo first.

A shear accidental double exposure photo. I did take few double exposures on purpose but I assure you, this is not one of them and of course, it is the best one. At least in my opinion.

I took two photos of a tram in rain because first of all aiming at the tram apparently has become my thing, the comparison photo that has to be taken with all my cameras, usually facing the sun, but as the weather lords had a whole different opinion about the sun shining at all, I decided that rainy day is perhaps more interesting and second of all I managed to get pretty neat pouring rain photos because I had a 400 ISO film in my Felica.

But as you can see, I also managed to do an unintentional double exposure, the people are not walking to or under the tram but trough a doorway, a corridor in an old brick building. It looks like the corridor is in the tram so the people are going simultaneously to two places, (or three?) in to a tram, to Hervanta which is 5 to 7 kilometers from the Tampere center and to Kehräsaari which is an old factory complex in the middle of the city. Neat!

And here's what I was aiming for. A tram in the rain. I had an umbrella covering the Felica and as I was squatting there, only for about 5 minutes and taking the two photos, my back and legs got soaking wet. But managed to keep my precious Felica dry which is the most important thing!

Although I've already published several comparison tram photos taken with different cameras, here's another one because trams are awesome and taking a picture facing the sun is even more awesome! This is the way the photo came out of my Sony A6400. Normally I would have post processed the photo a bit but not now because a comparison photo is what it is. Or the jpg that the camera decides to do for me.

Yet another tram! And a cyclist! I can't believe that this is taken with a camera that was built in the late 1950's. Just a jump in to the pasts future or futures past, which ever sounds more intriguing.

Guess what? A tram! Turning!

With this amount of tram photos I have to start inventing new ways of presenting the Tampere tram for you. A tram from the front, a tram from the back. A tram on it's side, a tram rolling over. A tram jumping over fences, a tram doing stand up comedy. Uh. I better start teaching the Tampere trams few new tricks.

Felica has a yellow filter that brings more contrast to the photos. Unfortunately the lever moves very easily when I keep the camera in my bag. (I have not used the Felica camera bag because it's broken and I didn't want it to turn out more broken.) So if I forget to check the filter levers position before I take the photo, it may be in the middle and the dark border is visible in the photo. That's what I think has happened here because I don't think the dark entity in the upper left corner is my finger or an actual dark entity. It's the filter that is supposed to be off but isn't quite there out of the way. Anyway, as long as it's not totally in the middle and blocking everything, this just brings character to the photo.

Planned double exposure photo. Church steps and an old tram serving as a bar.

Planned double exposure. Looks like a reflection.

Planned. Nothing much to mention about. Looks like photographed through a stained window glass.

I was hoping for a more dramatic scene from this angle but I have to say that the Sony A6400 photos below are more striking. Aiming through the Felicas round viewer truly is agony.

I love the weird angles and corners and reflections.

Finally the last photo I will show you from the first batch, a Hippie van! Such a suitable target for a Felica.

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_{Film cameras
Felica
1
Kodak Box 620
1, 2
Cosina Flash 35E
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_{Digital cameras
Sony A6400, 16-50mm
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Sony A6400, Laowa 25mm f2.8
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Comparison: Sony A6400, Canon EOS 550D, Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P32, Canon PowerShot A550
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