It works!

Well the camera works!! 24 exposures I took yesterday came out alright. Took £4.25 to develop at the local supermarket with a one hour wait. The cheapest film I can get my hands on is iso 400. It has to be because at this stage I don't know if this camara is going to work and give me blank images! So running that at iso 200 in the camera which is the slowest film speed it can use. You can alter the speed of a film (iso) by using a technique called push processing and pull processing to increase (pushing) or decrease (pulling) the speed of film and therefore the exposure you capture in the camera. Though you have to compensate for this in the developing of a film by saying how much you've changed this by. Other wise they will just develop for the setting of the film so it could be under or over exposed if you don't mention it.
So I had to pull this film...
The slowest film speed setting in this camera is 200 and that would mean it would be underexposed as they develop the film as if it's used at iso 400. So to make it make this work within the Sunny 16 rule I exposed it by a larger aperture to correct this. So instead of using it at f/5.6 on a heavily overcast day with no shadows I used it at f/4 so I could hand it in and make sure it was correctly developed without any fuss.

HALINA 35X

"The Halina 35x is a masterpiece of design, in that it looks like an expensive camera....In 1959, the Halina 35x cost £7 13s. 3d." http://www.marriottworld.com/pieces/pieces34.htm#35x

Found this 35mm viewfinder camera in a charity shop for a fiver. Yes for five UK pounds in all it's luxurious metal shininess. I'll be using the Sunny 16 rule as there's obviously no built in light meter. Not that I can afford to use film extensively as I do with digital. Just another outlet in my creative philosphy. So it's all buffed up and looking nice but will road test with a roll of film this week to really know if it's still useable.

The specs for the technical minded people are

* Type: viewfinder camera
* Year of launch: 1959
* Films: 35mm
* Lens: 1:3.5 / 45mm Halina Anastigmat
* Shutter: speeds 1/25-1/200 sec and Bulb mode.
* Aperture: 1:3.5-1:16