The 35x is a straightforward simple 35mm viewfinder camera with a 45mm The lens is a triplet with coated front and rear elements. The body is metal with a chrome plating and looks suspiciously like a pre M series Leica. However it is actually a close copy of the Ranger 35 made by Japanese make Nihon Seiki.
This point is strengthened by the fact that both the 35x and Ranger 35 were rebranded under the Micronta brand Micronta 35x and Micronta 35 respectively. Haking also sold the 35x under the Sunscope brand. The shutter sits rear of all the lens elements. The lens barrel has rings for shutter, focus and aperture. Unusually the aperture ring is furthest out and turns on focusing. The Focus ring is marked in Feet from 3ft to infinity. Depending on when the camera was made you might need to manually cock the shutter a la Smena 8M.
However my one is a later self cocking model. The using it as a weapon is no joke. The main body is solid. The body has a black embossed card to resemble leatherette which you often find peeling off.
This is why my one is recovered in vinyl. The lens barrel is not so tank like. The camera has simple mechanics but is prone to issues with the control rings especially focus. Mines had an unnerving wobble in once you got beyond 20ft. If buying watch out for fungus. Loading is okay but it has one of those take up spools with a small shiny metal strip to slide your leader behind that never seems to hold the film enough.
The viewfinder is small and minimalist. There are various versions of this camera. They often vary over the rewind button position. As such, you might then be wondering why many of the shots in this post are all full frame? Well, I too would be wondering that had I not spotted that the plastic bits inside the camera that usually crop the frame had been removed before the camera landed with me. I did email Alan about this, but I got no response… I do wonder if he was trying to trick me…?
My first instinct was to try and blutac a viewfinder to the top of the camera to aid framing. After all, do you really need more than a rough guide when shooting with a camera of this ilk? These next few are her handiwork.
After the first outing with it, her interest in shooting it on another occasion seemed limited. So after Alan emailed me asking how I was getting on, I thought I might as well finish the roll myself. So is it worth removal of the panoramic crop film gate?
Well, probably not to be honest. Had they been in place, I might have got some slightly more interesting frames. These next few shots were cropped from the centre of the frame in Lightroom, and are therefore are a rough approximation of what I saw through the viewfinder.
When this camera first landed with me, I just rolled my eyes. Well, apart from the attraction that some people have to the plastic lens look — which I must admit does work quite nicely with the Lomography film — I have to say, shooting a fixed focus camera with zero options for changing the settings is undeniably enjoyable. Does that mean I would recommend you seek the Halina Panorama out to shoot yourself? I always look for redeeming features in cameras, without the pano film gate this camera is just a shit camera.
Have you checked in device manager to see if there is a problem with USB devices? Did you have the camera switched on when you tried to download the photos? Question Author I run Windows vista and yeah the camera is on when i connect it. If the drivers and programmes have loaded correctly then the problem is either with the camera OR more likely the driver needed to activate the usb connection between the camera and pc is not recognised by Vista.
Does the driver cd say it is compatible with Vista. Could you see any problems in device manager. A cheap get around if all else fails is to buy a card reader and put your memory card into that.
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