The Welmy uses 120 film, but I didn't want to use a roll of 120 on a camera I knew to have issues. The Pickwick uses 127 and I don't have any of that. So I took an empty spool and backing paper from each camera and used 35mm film inside the spools. I'm somewhat torn on the whole full-bleed images thing for cameras. It can yield nice results, or it can be distracting. In both of these cases, though, the film isn't nearly as distracting as the low-quality images (particularly from the Pickwick.) The Welmy will take fine images one it can be focused again.
One frustrating thing about the Welmy, it says it's stuck at four feet for the focus. I was at least four feet from my dogs for each shot, using f16 for maximal depth of field. You'll see in these images that this camera's focus is decided deeper than four feet.
The lens takes great and sharp images, as seen by the high-tension towers and cars in the background. However, the focus is pretty far off of four feet.
The Pickwick presented a much more difficult challenge: the focus. I knew from a review I had read online that the focus was off-center. However, I was surprised by how out of focus the images are. That said, I suspect the issue is not with the lens but with the film back. The film, as the first image will show, seems to have fallen out of flatness.
Were it not for the film's perforations being aligned so well, this first image would look like a fun house mirror reflection.
There are no words to describe how bad this is.
Look at the ring of focus around this image. Blurry center, focused ring around the image. Odd. I'll try this again with more 35mm film and see if I can obtain better results.
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