UPDATE: I gave this camera back to my friend for display. While it could be fixed, a $120 repair isn’t practical for a sub-$50 camera.
Cool little camera a friend gave me. The shutter has an issue though. It doesn’t fire until halfway through the next sweep of the winder. And the top plate is a little loose.
It’s got a really cool way of locking the aperture and f stop together at the same EV.
I never dug into “Exposure Value” before. I knew they existed, since I’ve had nice light meters, but the interrelatedness of shutter speed and aperture worked fine.
EV makes sense as a way to express the amount of light available and how to capture it. The EV scale starts at EV 0, being ISO 100 film, f 1.0 aperture, at 1 second shutter speed. I wish that was EV 1, since that’s a lot of ones. It’s a logarithmic scale since shutter speed and aperture both halve the light at each stop.
