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This is a so-called
Focus Free or Toy Camera, a Topico. It's a quite common model which exists in different colours, also in fun colours with a numbering in the 900s. It's a basic plastic camera with nearly no features, if you do not count the "Happy Birthday" insert and the lens protection slider.

Its main features are:

Wide angle plastic lens, focus free
Shutter ~ 1/100
Double exposure prevention, "Happy Birthday" insert,
lens protection slider
Size 120 x 68 x 42,  Weight 109 gr.

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Camera closed.

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Camera front. Protection slider open

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Camera back. Viewer and film advance.

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Camera top. Film rewind, film counter and shutter release.


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Camera bottom. Rewind release, engages when pressed.

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Film compartment. There is clear plastic cover over the film plane with a "Happy Birthday" inscription that would appear on every photo.

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Film plane without cover. Note the curved film plane, it helps against the vignetting of the simple plastic lens.

These are the ultimate basics of a camera, focus free, single shutter speed and fixed aperture. Point and shoot only. If you choose the right film, ISO 400 in general and ISO 200 on very sunny days, you can shoot outside photos that look OK. The rest will be "Lomo" style.

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