Another variation of the Regula King Sporty BC. This model doesn't have the fake selenium-meter of his companion. The lens and shutter mechanism is identical, the plate around the lens is more squared and there is a weird yellow plastic emblem with a electronic lookalike (?) logo on it.
This camera resumes a lot of tricks that Lomography promotes as creativity : panorama sized negatives, a platic holder can be de-attached so the full film is exposed resulting in sprocketholes, the winder is rather challenging and not very precise what results in overlapping exposures, the filmwinder is not connected with the shutter, so multi-exposures are quit easy, there is a flash mount and finally a b-exposure for low light. Experiments, experiments,...
I personally like more the square design of the 7000 AF, then he rounded ones from their followers in the analoge Dynax range. I like this camera a lot, and it's my favorite of the "chunky heavy" plastics of the late 80's.
It's a fake DSLR with a piece of iron to make it heavy, but it's also a perfectley working camera. It has a shutter, a lens, a viewer, a motorized film-winding mechanism, a flash-shoe, aperture setting, exposure-counter, timer,...so why complaining?
This Russian Industar-69 lens, is made for the halfframe camera Chaika. Set on a Leica M8, the 28mm, becomes a 35mm equivalent. The funny thing about this lens, is it's Lomo-like features, blurry edges and a big vignetting wide open. The lens had to be rectified to have a correct depth of field, adapted to the LTM system. It's not coupled so when shooting wide open, the distance has to be set manually and rather correctly, it's not a big issue because it's a wide lens.
Do I have turned my beloved Leica M8, to a digital LCA ? The answer is YES!
