Aengus MacNaughton
There are a bunch of slightly different versions of these ‘scameras’ from the 1990s — not built by any of the major camera companies, and most of names ‘similar’ to the big names — “Olympia” and the like, but somehow they managed to sell a few copies with not only the ‘Canon’ name, but the actual Canon font style.
Don’t be fooled — it is *NOT* a real Canon camera. Fixed focus, plastic lens, few aperture choices, all plastic body (with a piece of steel to give it some weight — it is loose and rattling around in mine!). Oddball electronic flash with a bracket to hold it to the camera body and custom cable to the “hot shoe”. The flash even has a ‘zoom’ lens feature with what look like the zoom lens mm settings — even though this camera does not have a zoom lens and you cannot change lenses!
It sorta looks like an SLR, but there is only a straight-through and kinda waist (or is it ‘waste’?) level finder.
I used the self-timer function (worked!), used the flash on every shot (outside) — setting the zoom distance/mm as if it mattered depending on how far the subject was from the camera, and tested the four ‘aperture’ settings (f6.3-f16). There is no ISO control/exposure control, shutter speed control.
Oddly — I shot a 36-exposure roll, but only got 20 negatives. It looks like the motor advance is a little wonky and the negatives are spaced out more than normal.
The shots got sharper, and darker, at the smaller apertures.
More info here — Olympia Camera — Camera Wiki
It actually does take pictures, but I can’t say much more about it! I shot Fomapan 400 and my results are in the album linked below. As processed and scanned by The Darkroom, and no edits.
