plastikcam.com       Topico Twinway Star Panorama Camera

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 like this one, but most are black. It's a basic plastic camera with few features, a flash, a panorama switch and the lens protection.

Its main features are:

Wide angle plastic lens, focus free
Shutter ~ 1/100
Double exposure prevention, panorama switch, lens protection, flash
 Size 120 x 68 x 42,  Weight 109 gr.

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Camera with box and instructions.

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Camera closed. You have to turn the yellow ring to open and turn further for flash.

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Camera front. Protection open

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Camera back. Viewer and film advance. Panorama switch and flash ready lamp. Film type window. To the right: battery compartment. Takes 2 AAA batteries, a bit fiddly to insert as the compartment was probably made for 2 AA batteries and has an insert to reduce the size.

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Camera top. Film rewind, rewind release, engages when pressed. Shutter release and film counter. Maybe the camera was a give-away for a company.

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Camera bottom. Nothing to see.

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Film compartment. Note the curved film plane, it helps against the vignetting of the simple plastic lens.

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Film plane with panorama blinds switched in. There are blinds in the viewer as well.

 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, but you can use flash for interior photos.

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