It was 1948 - 1949, and first there was the short-lived Perfex-built Cee-Ay 35, the design of which was modified by Ciro to make the Ciro 35, which very soon was bought up by Graflex to make their version. In my opinion, this line of cameras owed a lot in design and concept to both Argus and to Bolsey. I very much like the outcome, the Ciro 35 handles very nicely and is capable of excellent images. My only complaint is that it could have benefited from some sort of bright line framing in the viewfinder, for a more accurate aim. I confess that I did do a bit of extra cropping with the final image results below.

Last weekend when I visited the "Oldsmobile and Orphans" car show at the National Museum of Transportation I made my first round with a Ciro 35 camera, using up the Fujicolor 200 film left over in the roll after my 126 cartridge reload experiment (I haver posted a gallery from those results). (And when that partial film roll was used up, I went around the car show a second time with a Pentax digital... those results were also posted in a gallery a few days ago.)

I squeezed 10 image frames onto that film remnant. Filmstrip was developed by me in Caffenol, which uses safe household ingredients for the chemistry, scanned with my Epson Perfection transparency scanner, then finished off with the help of my computer.

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All images are ©2021 E.J.Kowalski.
Thanks! Ed