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Filling The Gaps: The Belca Beltica, A 35mm Folding Camera
I have a lot of cameras, but until recently I never had a 35mm folding camera. Then, a few weeks ago, I was leisurely scrolling the Kamerastore website when I came across this lovely black folding camera, the Belca Beltica. Unusually for me, it was in the ‘Certified’ category and was, ‘found to be working correctly [and any] flaws present will … will not affect typical use’. In this instance, there was ‘some minor haze on the viewfinder and some wear on the body’. This won’t affect use, so it looks like I have a 35mm folder now.
The Belca Beltica was made by the East German VEB Belca-Werk in Dresden between 1946 and 1951. It has a Meyer-Optik 50mm f2.9 Trioplan lens and a Cludor shutter with speeds of 1s—1/200s (+B). Unusually, the shutter button is on the left side of the top plate of the camera. The button to the right of the viewfinder is to open the front flap of the camera. My model is quite tightly wound, even seventy years after its production, and springs open with a mighty ‘thwack!’ so I tend to hold the flap and let it open slowly, just in case it’s not good for the camera.
Beneath the viewfinder is a distance dial with markings from 0,6m to infinity. I believe this is a parallax adjustment system, perhaps like an early rangefinder, but I’m not sure. On the right-hand side of the top plate is the frame counter, which is adjusted manually, and turns with a satisfying click. On the top left, next to the shutter button, is the rewind knob. On the base of the camera is a wheel to advance the film, and next to this another button that disengages the wind-on between frames.
Loading and using this camera is a bit of a palaver, though in practice is easier than it sounds. To load the film, the tab on the film header is pushed under the little ‘flap’ on the wind-on spindle (which actually holds the film very securely) and the sprockets aligned with the cog wheel. Advance the film with the wheel until it stops, then push the film advance button. There’s a little click, then you can wind-on again. Repeat the process, and when the film is secure, close the back.
Wind-on one more time, pressing the advance button each time. On the top of the camera you can then adjust the frame counter to zero. Shooting involves the same process except this time, cock the shutter and set the speed and aperture. Judge the distance to the subject and set this distance on the focus ring. Set the parallax dial to the same distance, compose the image and press the shutter. Then press the advance button and wind the film to the next frame. At the end of the roll, pull on the wind-on wheel, which will disengage the film advance and allow the film to be rewound back into the cassette.
For my first outing with the Belca Beltica I used one of my rolls of the new colour shifting film from Harman, Switch Azure. This is a film like Lomochrome Turquoise where the layers on the film emulsion have been mixed up. However, although Turquoise has a quite wide ISO range, Azure uses the same film base as Harman Phoenix and is rated at ISO 125. We took the camera to Costa Nova and Vagueira, where we had lunch, and later to the Feira de Março in Aveiro. As usual, I used the Camera Meter app to judge the exposures. I’ve posted the whole roll in an album on my Flickr if you want to see the rest of the images.
In conclusion, I was really happy with the Belca Beltica, it’s a quality camera, even 60-odd years after its release. Mind you, it’s not a camera for rapid shooting situations, and I’m always finding myself pressing the button to open the camera instead of the shutter button. The multiple steps mean you really have to think, and if you forget to wind on between shots there’s always a chance of multiple exposures. I’m also loving Harman Switch Azure, and as it’s much easier for me to get hold of than Turquoise, I might have a new favourite.
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#35mm #Belca #Beltica #FeiraDeMarço #Folder #HarmanSwitchAzure #HarmanTechnologySwitchAzure #Lomochrome #Portugal #Turquoise #Vagueira -
Some recent #analogphotography using my trusted #pentax auto 110 and #lomochrome color 92 film.
110 film is my favourite film format. It is so small. About 17mm.
Personally, I am not vibing with this color92 film. Don’t think I will buy it again. I’d rather shoot using lomography tiger over this one.
#filmisnotdead #filmphotography #110film -
Some recent #analogphotography using my trusted #pentax auto 110 and #lomochrome color 92 film.
110 film is my favourite film format. It is so small. About 17mm.
Personally, I am not vibing with this color92 film. Don’t think I will buy it again. I’d rather shoot using lomography tiger over this one.
#filmisnotdead #filmphotography #110film -
Some recent #analogphotography using my trusted #pentax auto 110 and #lomochrome color 92 film.
110 film is my favourite film format. It is so small. About 17mm.
Personally, I am not vibing with this color92 film. Don’t think I will buy it again. I’d rather shoot using lomography tiger over this one.
#filmisnotdead #filmphotography #110film -
Some recent #analogphotography using my trusted #pentax auto 110 and #lomochrome color 92 film.
110 film is my favourite film format. It is so small. About 17mm.
Personally, I am not vibing with this color92 film. Don’t think I will buy it again. I’d rather shoot using lomography tiger over this one.
#filmisnotdead #filmphotography #110film -
Lomography’s Newest 35mm Film Camera Is Just $28 https://petapixel.com/2026/03/04/lomographys-newest-35mm-film-camera-is-just-28/ #reusablefilmcamera #colornegativefilm #compactcamera #pocketcamera #lomochrome #lomography #Equipment #Analog #analog #News #35mm #film
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Lomography’s Newest 35mm Film Camera Is Just $28 https://petapixel.com/2026/03/04/lomographys-newest-35mm-film-camera-is-just-28/ #reusablefilmcamera #colornegativefilm #compactcamera #pocketcamera #lomochrome #lomography #Equipment #Analog #analog #News #35mm #film
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Lomography’s Newest 35mm Film Camera Is Just $28 https://petapixel.com/2026/03/04/lomographys-newest-35mm-film-camera-is-just-28/ #reusablefilmcamera #colornegativefilm #compactcamera #pocketcamera #lomochrome #lomography #Equipment #Analog #analog #News #35mm #film
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Lomography’s Newest 35mm Film Camera Is Just $28 https://petapixel.com/2026/03/04/lomographys-newest-35mm-film-camera-is-just-28/ #reusablefilmcamera #colornegativefilm #compactcamera #pocketcamera #lomochrome #lomography #Equipment #Analog #analog #News #35mm #film
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Enamorada de los resultados: #Pentax k2dmd + #lomochrome purple #35mm #film @[email protected]
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Enamorada de los resultados: #Pentax k2dmd + #lomochrome purple #35mm #film @[email protected]
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Enamorada de los resultados: #Pentax k2dmd + #lomochrome purple #35mm #film @[email protected]
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Lomo Color '92 and Lomo Color '92 "Sun-kissed" suck ass. I could bump the white balance to +100 and it would still suck ass.
What a bland, grainy waste of time, energy, and C-41 soup 😩___
📷 #NikonF90X
🎞️ #Lomo Color '92 Sun-Kissed @ ISO 400
🧪 #ADOX C-TEC 41🏰 Castle Neugebäude, #Vienna
#MastodonAustria #MastodonVienna #Lomography #LomoChrome #LomoColor92 #C41 #IStillShootFilm #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography 🌅
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Lomo Color '92 and Lomo Color '92 "Sun-kissed" suck ass. I could bump the white balance to +100 and it would still suck ass.
What a bland, grainy waste of time, energy, and C-41 soup 😩___
📷 #NikonF90X
🎞️ #Lomo Color '92 Sun-Kissed @ ISO 400
🧪 #ADOX C-TEC 41🏰 Castle Neugebäude, #Vienna
#MastodonAustria #MastodonVienna #Lomography #LomoChrome #LomoColor92 #C41 #IStillShootFilm #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography 🌅
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Lomo Color '92 and Lomo Color '92 "Sun-kissed" suck ass. I could bump the white balance to +100 and it would still suck ass.
What a bland, grainy waste of time, energy, and C-41 soup 😩___
📷 #NikonF90X
🎞️ #Lomo Color '92 Sun-Kissed @ ISO 400
🧪 #ADOX C-TEC 41🏰 Castle Neugebäude, #Vienna
#MastodonAustria #MastodonVienna #Lomography #LomoChrome #LomoColor92 #C41 #IStillShootFilm #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography 🌅
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That Time I Broke A Roll Of Lomochrome Purple In the Sprocket Rocket
I’ve always been a sucker for panoramic images, and something like the Hasselblad X-pan panoramic camera has been on my wishlist for a long time. Of course, that’s way outside my budget, so back in 2022, or thereabouts, I bought the next best thing: the Lomography Sprocket Rocket. The Sprocket Rocket is a simple Lomography camera with just one shutter speed, of about 1/100s (and ‘bulb’), and two apertures, one for sunny and one for cloudy weather (about f16 and f11, respectively).
Eager to try out the Sprocket Rocket, which I especially like since it has a film gate that includes the sprocket holes in the final image, I loaded it with a roll of Lomochrome Purple film. Given the 100-400 ISO latitude of Lomochrome Purple I kept the aperture mostly on the sunny setting, and set out. I took the Rocket to my favourite spots around our local Lidl supermarket, and finished the roll in the woods behind our house.
After several exposures in the woods, I came to the end of the roll. As I had another roll of film with me, I thought that I would unload the roll or Purple and load the Rocket with the second roll of, whatever it was (I can’t really remember now). I started rewinding the film into the cassette, but after a few turns it seemed to ‘stick’ in the camera. I paused for a second then turned the rewind knob firmly but gently and the film started rewinding smoothly back into the cassette again. It was a little stiff to turn, but eventually it felt like the film was back in the cassette and I opened the back of the camera.
Oops! I could see straight away that the film had broken, and a lot of film was still wrapped around the take-up spool. I quickly clipped the cover back onto the camera and knew that my outing for that day was over. I went home and readied my trusty dark bag. There, I rewound the broken film into a recyclable 35mm cassette in the dark bag and wondered what to do next. I knew that much of the film would have been exposed to light, but there might be something worth salvaging close to the take-up spool. The snag was that I didn’t have any facilities to develop films at home, and at the time it was expensive to develop and scan films at the labs in Aveiro and Oliveira do Bairro. So the film went into my bedside cabinet and remained there.
A few weeks ago, some three years later, I picked up a ‘not passed’ Epson Perfection v750 Pro flat bed scanner on the Kamerastore website. To begin with, I got this running nicely on an old Windows XP computer, but just before our holidays I bought a Lenovo M600 micro computer, and I’ve connected this to the scanner. I’ve also discovered that Forever Blue in Aveiro now provides film development only for the not unreasonable price of 4€. So, after three years in a drawer, it was probably time to get the broken film developed and find out if there was anything on the film at all.
Surprisingly, there were images on the film, and after scanning with Epson Scan software, I was really happy with the results. The colour shifting was quite phenomenal, although I’m sure this was a combination of effects caused by the light leaks and improper storage. Of course, I’m sure I’ll never be able to produce this effect again, and although I do like light leaks, I’m not sure that I really want to try. I’ve posted the whole roll in an album on my Flickr, light leaks and all, if you want to see the rest of the images.
If you are on Mastodon, you can now follow this blog directly. Just go to Mastodon and follow the ‘Snapshot’ WordPress account at @keithdevereux.wordpress.com. All new posts will be automatically updated to your timeline.
#BrokenFilm #Experimental #Lomochrome #Lomography #Panorama #Purple #SprocketRocket #LightLeaks
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That Time I Broke A Roll Of Lomochrome Purple In the Sprocket Rocket
I’ve always been a sucker for panoramic images, and something like the Hasselblad X-pan panoramic camera has been on my wishlist for a long time. Of course, that’s way outside my budget, so back in 2022, or thereabouts, I bought the next best thing: the Lomography Sprocket Rocket. The Sprocket Rocket is a simple Lomography camera with just one shutter speed, of about 1/100s (and ‘bulb’), and two apertures, one for sunny and one for cloudy weather (about f16 and f11, respectively).
Eager to try out the Sprocket Rocket, which I especially like since it has a film gate that includes the sprocket holes in the final image, I loaded it with a roll of Lomochrome Purple film. Given the 100-400 ISO latitude of Lomochrome Purple I kept the aperture mostly on the sunny setting, and set out. I took the Rocket to my favourite spots around our local Lidl supermarket, and finished the roll in the woods behind our house.
After several exposures in the woods, I came to the end of the roll. As I had another roll of film with me, I thought that I would unload the roll or Purple and load the Rocket with the second roll of, whatever it was (I can’t really remember now). I started rewinding the film into the cassette, but after a few turns it seemed to ‘stick’ in the camera. I paused for a second then turned the rewind knob firmly but gently and the film started rewinding smoothly back into the cassette again. It was a little stiff to turn, but eventually it felt like the film was back in the cassette and I opened the back of the camera.
Oops! I could see straight away that the film had broken, and a lot of film was still wrapped around the take-up spool. I quickly clipped the cover back onto the camera and knew that my outing for that day was over. I went home and readied my trusty dark bag. There, I rewound the broken film into a recyclable 35mm cassette in the dark bag and wondered what to do next. I knew that much of the film would have been exposed to light, but there might be something worth salvaging close to the take-up spool. The snag was that I didn’t have any facilities to develop films at home, and at the time it was expensive to develop and scan films at the labs in Aveiro and Oliveira do Bairro. So the film went into my bedside cabinet and remained there.
A few weeks ago, some three years later, I picked up a ‘not passed’ Epson Perfection v750 Pro flat bed scanner on the Kamerastore website. To begin with, I got this running nicely on an old Windows XP computer, but just before our holidays I bought a Lenovo M600 micro computer, and I’ve connected this to the scanner. I’ve also discovered that Forever Blue in Aveiro now provides film development only for the not unreasonable price of 4€. So, after three years in a drawer, it was probably time to get the broken film developed and find out if there was anything on the film at all.
Surprisingly, there were images on the film, and after scanning with Epson Scan software, I was really happy with the results. The colour shifting was quite phenomenal, although I’m sure this was a combination of effects caused by the light leaks and improper storage. Of course, I’m sure I’ll never be able to produce this effect again, and although I do like light leaks, I’m not sure that I really want to try. I’ve posted the whole roll in an album on my Flickr, light leaks and all, if you want to see the rest of the images.
If you are on Mastodon, you can now follow this blog directly. Just go to Mastodon and follow the ‘Snapshot’ WordPress account at @keithdevereux.wordpress.com. All new posts will be automatically updated to your timeline.
#BrokenFilm #Experimental #Lomochrome #Lomography #Panorama #Purple #SprocketRocket #LightLeaks
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That Time I Broke A Roll Of Lomochrome Purple In the Sprocket Rocket
I’ve always been a sucker for panoramic images, and something like the Hasselblad X-pan panoramic camera has been on my wishlist for a long time. Of course, that’s way outside my budget, so back in 2022, or thereabouts, I bought the next best thing: the Lomography Sprocket Rocket. The Sprocket Rocket is a simple Lomography camera with just one shutter speed, of about 1/100s (and ‘bulb’), and two apertures, one for sunny and one for cloudy weather (about f16 and f11, respectively).
Eager to try out the Sprocket Rocket, which I especially like since it has a film gate that includes the sprocket holes in the final image, I loaded it with a roll of Lomochrome Purple film. Given the 100-400 ISO latitude of Lomochrome Purple I kept the aperture mostly on the sunny setting, and set out. I took the Rocket to my favourite spots around our local Lidl supermarket, and finished the roll in the woods behind our house.
After several exposures in the woods, I came to the end of the roll. As I had another roll of film with me, I thought that I would unload the roll or Purple and load the Rocket with the second roll of, whatever it was (I can’t really remember now). I started rewinding the film into the cassette, but after a few turns it seemed to ‘stick’ in the camera. I paused for a second then turned the rewind knob firmly but gently and the film started rewinding smoothly back into the cassette again. It was a little stiff to turn, but eventually it felt like the film was back in the cassette and I opened the back of the camera.
Oops! I could see straight away that the film had broken, and a lot of film was still wrapped around the take-up spool. I quickly clipped the cover back onto the camera and knew that my outing for that day was over. I went home and readied my trusty dark bag. There, I rewound the broken film into a recyclable 35mm cassette in the dark bag and wondered what to do next. I knew that much of the film would have been exposed to light, but there might be something worth salvaging close to the take-up spool. The snag was that I didn’t have any facilities to develop films at home, and at the time it was expensive to develop and scan films at the labs in Aveiro and Oliveira do Bairro. So the film went into my bedside cabinet and remained there.
A few weeks ago, some three years later, I picked up a ‘not passed’ Epson Perfection v750 Pro flat bed scanner on the Kamerastore website. To begin with, I got this running nicely on an old Windows XP computer, but just before our holidays I bought a Lenovo M600 micro computer, and I’ve connected this to the scanner. I’ve also discovered that Forever Blue in Aveiro now provides film development only for the not unreasonable price of 4€. So, after three years in a drawer, it was probably time to get the broken film developed and find out if there was anything on the film at all.
Surprisingly, there were images on the film, and after scanning with Epson Scan software, I was really happy with the results. The colour shifting was quite phenomenal, although I’m sure this was a combination of effects caused by the light leaks and improper storage. Of course, I’m sure I’ll never be able to produce this effect again, and although I do like light leaks, I’m not sure that I really want to try. I’ve posted the whole roll in an album on my Flickr, light leaks and all, if you want to see the rest of the images.
If you are on Mastodon, you can now follow this blog directly. Just go to Mastodon and follow the ‘Snapshot’ WordPress account at @keithdevereux.wordpress.com. All new posts will be automatically updated to your timeline.
#BrokenFilm #Experimental #Lomochrome #Lomography #Panorama #Purple #SprocketRocket #LightLeaks
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Forgotten Under the Willow
📷: Minolta Dynax 7
🎞️: #LomoChrome #Purple EI 250
⚗️: C-41 #selfdevelopment
👨💻: #epsonv600 #silverfast #darktable
#filmphotography #believeinfilm #minoltagang #Lomography -
Forgotten Under the Willow
📷: Minolta Dynax 7
🎞️: #LomoChrome #Purple EI 250
⚗️: C-41 #selfdevelopment
👨💻: #epsonv600 #silverfast #darktable
#filmphotography #believeinfilm #minoltagang #Lomography -
The Stop to Bakota
📷: Minolta Dynax 7
🎞️: #LomoChrome #Purple EI 250
⚗️: C-41 #selfdevelopment
👨💻: #epsonv600 #silverfast #darktable
#filmphotography #believeinfilm #minoltagang #Lomography -
The Stop to Bakota
📷: Minolta Dynax 7
🎞️: #LomoChrome #Purple EI 250
⚗️: C-41 #selfdevelopment
👨💻: #epsonv600 #silverfast #darktable
#filmphotography #believeinfilm #minoltagang #Lomography -
The Vastness
📷: Minolta Dynax 7
🎞️: #LomoChrome #Purple EI 250
⚗️: C-41 #selfdevelopment
👨💻: #epsonv600 #silverfast #darktable
#filmphotography #believeinfilm #minoltagang #Lomography -
Family photo in purple
📷: Minolta Dynax 7
🎞️: #LomoChrome #Purple EI 250
⚗️: C-41 #selfdevelopment
👨💻: #epsonv600 #silverfast #darktable
#filmphotography #believeinfilm #minoltagang #Lomography -
Reflected Silence
📷: Minolta Dynax 7
🎞️: #LomoChrome Turquoise EI 250
⚗️: C-41 #selfdevelopment
👨💻: #epsonv600 #silverfast #darktable
📍: #Ukraine
#filmphotography #believeinfilm #minoltagang #Lomography -
#SilentSunday
📷: Minolta Dynax 7
🎞️: #LomoChrome Turquoise EI 250
⚗️: C-41 #selfdevelopment
👨💻: #epsonv600 #silverfast #darktable
📍: #Ukraine
#filmphotography #believeinfilm #minoltagang #Lomography -
During a recent trip to Supetar in the spring of 2025, I managed to capture its unforgettable beauty through the unique perspective of the #LomoChrome Turquoise film. I have used this film before, and I loved the weird colors it captures.
When the people from Lomography offered me one to test and review, I knew it would be incredible to take it to a new place like Supetar.
https://ftrc.blog/supetar-lomochrome-turquoise/
#believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #filmphotography #analogphotography
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@johbeil Find ich für manche Sachen ja wirklich immer wieder interessant. Den #Lomochrome hast Du benuzt, odeR? -
From the archive / 03.2021
📷: #NikonN6006
🎞️: #Lomography #LomoChrome #Purple
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As well as my redscaled Harman Phoenix, I had a roll of Lomochrome Turquoise in the Voigtlander Brillant to finish off. Here's one of the Circular Footbridge in Aveiro from earlier in the year.
#Lomography, #Voigtlander, #Brillant, #Experimental, #PseudoTLR, #Lomochrome, #Turquoise,