Any ideas as to what shutter speed this camera might have?

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I bought a cheapo plastic Sunpet camera a while back that I plan to run a roll through just to see what results it produces (the camera cost 50p, so a roll of Poundland Agfa seems apt). I have the instruction sheet for the camera, which states it has a 35mm f/8 lens, and that the minimum focus distance is 1m. It also suggests using a flash in dim light or indoors. The only thing it doesn't specify is the shutter speed, which would be handy to know so I can at least try and work out when the camera is likely to take a reasonably exposed picture dependant on conditions.

Anyone care to hazard a guess? Do cheap plastic compacts like thiis tend to fall into a certain range of fixed shutter speeds?

I'll be giving it a go whatever the case, but anything I can do to try and maximise the quality of the (probably poor) results would be good. :D

Thanks.


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stevelmx5 said:
I'd guess at somewhere around 1/60th as that's what the plastic Lomo-type cameras I've used tend to use.
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Well I would agree as in the old days all cheap plastic cameras were about 1/60 sec and probably haven't changed much.
 
stevelmx5 said:
I'd guess at somewhere around 1/60th as that's what the plastic Lomo-type cameras I've used tend to use.
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excalibur2 said:
Well I would agree as in the old days all cheap plastic cameras were about 1/60 sec and probably haven't changed much.
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Thanks both. That's in the ballpark of what I was expecting.

I guess with a roll of 200 ASA film in there, I'm going to need to avoid bright scenes or risk quite a lot of overexposure. I might try it with a roll of expired colour film. I've got several rolls that are aproaching 15 years past their use-by date, so they might be ok in this.
 
I'm not sure of the aperture but I doubt it's less than F8. It's quite bright today so I've just pointed my meter at the window and got F9ish @ 1/60th (ISO 200) so i reckon there's enough latitude in the vista to get results. The camera is basically the equivalent of a standard disposable i'd guess?
 
Most simple cameras have a shutter speed around 1/60 which is fast enough for most people to hand hold and slow enough for 200ASA film to be used in dull light.

Interestingly, Sunpet are one of the few companies to still make film cameras, Cosina being the other one I know about.
 
stevelmx5 said:
I'm not sure of the aperture but I doubt it's less than F8. It's quite bright today so I've just pointed my meter at the window and got F9ish @ 1/60th (ISO 200) so i reckon there's enough latitude in the vista to get results. The camera is basically the equivalent of a standard disposable i'd guess?
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The aperture is specified as F8 in the instructions sheet, so that's a known quantity at least.

I suspect it might leak light quite badly (based on my opening the film door to look inside), but then that'll probably be part of its low-fi charm. :)

I'll post the results when I get around to shooting with it.
 
john.margetts said:
Most simple cameras have a shutter speed around 1/60 which is fast enough for most people to hand hold and slow enough for 200ASA film to be used in dull light.

Interestingly, Sunpet are one of the few companies to still make film cameras, Cosina being the other one I know about.
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And Nikon
 
john.margetts said:
Most simple cameras have a shutter speed around 1/60 which is fast enough for most people to hand hold and slow enough for 200ASA film to be used in dull light.

Interestingly, Sunpet are one of the few companies to still make film cameras, Cosina being the other one I know about.
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... and Leica of course, and Fujifilm I think (certainly if you count Instax). Not to mention Lomography or whatever...

And of course there are quite a few still making LF cameras!
 
Didn't realise Leica were still making film cameras and, no, I do not count instax cameras
 
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