{"id":319,"date":"2009-10-17T22:47:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T22:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=319"},"modified":"2010-04-18T15:22:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T22:22:25","slug":"cosina-cx7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"Cosina CX7"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cosinacx7_med\"<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>There is plenty of information on the Internet regarding the Cosina CX-2 or it’s copy the LOMO LC-A but there are other cameras in this series that came later.\u00a0 The CX7 came out in 1983 and is a very basic 35mm point and shoot without any manual overrides (well unless you want to change the film ASA setting to achieve +-1 stops with 200 ASA film.\u00a0 It has a lens design with 4 elements in three groups and an unusual focal length of 33mm and a maximum aperture of f3.5\u00a0 (this is likely the same lens as the CX-1 as it has the same specifications).\u00a0 As far as operation there isn’t much to say, the film loads easily as it has a small sprung catch that hooks a film sprocket automatically and the film advances with a thumb wheel.\u00a0\u00a0 The lens has a fair amount of vignetting and you really can’t say what f stop it has chosen so focus and depth of field are somewhat difficult to predict as shown by the picture of the Rubik’s cube.\u00a0 While it does have\u00a0 two LED indicators for short or far distance you can’t know how far or short that is,\u00a0 and it won’t be very short either as it’s minimum focus distance is 1.2M.\u00a0 So all in all it is an uncomplicated\u00a0 camera to use, with a decent lens but is best used when a little bit of randomness is welcome.
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