Daci in Potsdam

Zwarte Dacora Daci-boxcamera met Potsdam 100. Eén uur standontwikkeling in Rodinal met tussentijds tweemaal kiepen. En inderdaad, de lens is vies. Ik ben al jaren van plan om ’m eens schoon te maken.

Testing an Ilford Sporti

Camerapedia:
Sporti is a medium format roll 120 film viewfinder camera made by Dacora for Ilford introduced in c.1959.

The camera has a handy little lever to help you pop out the exposed film, see bottom image. Quite convenient, if you know it is there. If you don't, you may spend several minutes trying to figure out how to remove the roll.

Another feature is that the shutter isn't activated by pressing the shutter release like it says on Camerapedia, but by letting it go again. I must say I like that feature – and I found out about it in time. This particular camera has a minor light leak, as you can see in the three sample images. The lens is fine and yields nice, soft images, but overall the camera is a bit too bulky to carry around for a walkabouter like me.

Oh, according to photomemorabilia.co.uk, this is a 'European' model with the grey leatherette covering which Ilford believed was not best suited to the more conservative UK 'taste'.

Image 1 and 2: Fujicolor Pro 400H, image 3: Kodak Portra 160.