I got this camera from a local Ebay seller for 500 Pesos plus additional P80 shipping fee (around 12 Dollars in total). I was the first bidder, and after a couple of days I was thinking if I really wanted to have this camera. But there's seems to have no other interested bidder aside from me, so after few more days I paid for it. :p
I used it on Lomomanila's "Cheap Plastic Cameras of the World Unite" Lomowalk. We were supposed to use any cheap plastic cameras as long as it costs less than 500 Pesos. We were even joking that any other cameras costing more than 500 Pesos shall be confiscated and would be given away as a raffle prize! Hahaha Unfortunately no cameras made it to the Prize list! hehehe
The seller posted the camera on Ebay as "Kinetic Camera 135mm from Time," I have seen a camera like this from Lomomanila.ph Forum but with different brand printed in front, "Franka" if I am not mistaken. Mine has a Time Magazine logo, I think Time Camera was one of those freebies if you subscribed to Time Magazine.
It looks like an SLR, a little heavy but fits perfectly on my hands when I'm holding it for a shoot. The lens focal length is 50mm, Has four apertures, and you can adjust the settings based on the clouds and sun engraved on the aperture knob. I'm too lazy to google for it's possible shutter speed, maybe it's around 1/125, so I just used ASA200 during the Lomowalk.
Around the lens there's something printed "Auto Fix Focus," whatever that means.
Loading films was hard for me. I am so bad with loading films that I often send unexposed rolls to the Photo Labs. Worse with this Time Camera. The spool mechanism of this camera is like of Yashica GSN's, you attach the tongue on the first spool then as you advance the advance knob-thingy it rolls to another spool, (I am bad with technical things as well, sorry!). And this doubled the film loading nightmare for me!
And as a proof, here is the link of my first roll with the camera:
http://icuresick.multiply.com/photos/album/43/My_Crap_Cheap_Plastic_Cam_of_The_World_RollIt was supposed to be a 36-shot Redscale test roll, but since I wasn't able to load the film properly only two shots were developed.
But luckily I was able to produce a second roll on that same Lomowalk.
http://icuresick.multiply.com/photos/album/61/Time_Camera_-_Cheap_Plastic_Cams_of_the_World_Unite
