{"id":17438,"date":"2016-04-09T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=17438"},"modified":"2016-04-09T09:00:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T16:00:22","slug":"konica-af3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=17438","title":{"rendered":"Konica AF3D"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Konica AF3 and this one with the date stamp the AF3D marked the end of the 16 year run for the Konica C35 and its variations.\u00a0 From 1967 to 1983 Konica had produced many\u00a0models adding improvements and features along the way but always with a fixed focal length lens. This final version had a 35mm f2.8 lens of 4 elements and autofocus.\u00a0 It’s a great lens despite my gallery images but the camera itself is less than inspiring.\u00a0 It was made available in other colours perhaps that’s what it needs.\u00a0 The fact that Konica did not include a film advance motor but it still has a film advance lever is a nice touch as it makes the camera very quiet to operate.\u00a0 You manually set the film speed but it is a limited range of 100-400 ASA so 200 speed film is probably the best allowing for +- 1 stop of adjustment as needed by overriding this setting.<\/p>\n

This is perhaps the worst roll of expired film I have ever come across it is or was Kodak Max 400.\u00a0 The other roll of film in the tank did not have any issues and the camera is unlikely to have caused this so the film is the only culprit left. The images were well enough received on Instagram with some people likely wondering what filter I had used.<\/p>\n\n\t\t