Thursday, June 9, 2011

#18 Halina 35X Super

My father's photographic outfit

This outfit, plus a telescopic black and chrome tripod, with a ball head and a clever reversal bush for 1/4 or 3/8", neatly tucked in a gray square patterned bag, made by my mother, were my father's companions in all our family trips, parties, etc.

When I started collecting cameras my father gave it to me, on my birthday, as he was no longer using it.

Wait I'm getting ahead on the chronology of the facts. 

When I started collecting cameras I decided to recover all the cameras that I have had or used intensively.
This Halina 35X Super was the first 35mm camera that I ever used but, it belonged to my dad, so I went to the Bay to get a replacement for it and I bought this one:

Halina 35X Super

This camera was made in Hong Kong, it's marked Empire Made, from 1960 onwards.
It's a very simple viewfinder camera.
Halina Anastigmat f.c. 45mm 1:3.5 lens
Scale focusing
Central leaf shutter: 1/25, 1/50, 1/100, 1/200 and B
Film advance and shutter cock combined
Exposure counter on a wheel in the centre of the advance lever
Removable back to load/unload film
Film rewind by round knurled knob
Flash PC synch on the side of the lens barrel

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I don't have much to say about this camera, I never used it.
I will leave that to the post were I'm going to tell you about the "original", the one that my father gave to me.

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My father never liked the more modern cameras that I've been giving him through the years, so he asked me to get him a camera like the old one, that he liked so much and was used to, so now he's using this one.

Stay tuned (o;

4 comments:

  1. I love my Halina 35x (or "Halina Bonham Carter" as I call her). Have gotten some nice shots with it. Don't know what the "super" adds to the mix, but it's a fun little camera!

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  2. Hi Kathy,
    I have one of these too. The main difference is that the super has a lever to advance the film and cocks the shutter in the same movement.

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  3. hi.
    i found this camera in my father's old stuff its just with the leather case n nothing else is with it. it has a very strong significant value coz my father died whn i ws 2 so i wanna get it fixed n use it for myself do u think it can be fixed or its like the stuff tht once its spoils it cnt be fixed?
    hyra

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  4. @Hyra:
    Sorry for the late reply.
    I suppose that the problem with your camera should be easy to fix. It's a sturdy and simple camera.
    Send it to a camera repairman, it probably will need nothing more than a cleaning and lube job.

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