I brought down the Mercury Satellite 127 camera that my Mom purchased new in 1964 to replace the Traveler 120 that she gave me to have for shooting at the New York World's Fair. A few years ago I had already modified the Mercury Satellite to hold 35mm film cartridges, so I loaded it with a roll of Fuji Superia-400 of unknown age and used it for family photos and local shots of High Ridge, as if my Mom were still alive and used the camera while visiting from Pennsylvania. Saturday evening I developed it in Caffenol chemistry.

The Mercury Satellite has a fixed focus single element lens, a one speed shutter (I clocked this one at 1/70 second), a single size aperture (about f:11), and not much else except for sockets for a flash attachment (I did not use any flash with this series).
So, in consideration of the exposure limits, I used a neutral density filter, NDx2, and held it in front of the camera lens for full sun shots.
I remembered the push-on close-up attachment lens I had for my old Kodak Instamatic 100 and found it was also a perfect fit for the Mercury Satellite. The paperwork has a chart saying that it corrects to focus at 4 feet when camera is set for infinity (or in this case a non-adjustable fixed focus lens). The attachment went on for the shot of the dwarf sitting on the patio table, and the closeups of headstones at the end of the roll.

Film must have been old? Despite the 1/70 shutter of the Mercury and fixed f:11aperture some of the roll still underexposed. But I was able to tease out images with the Epson scanner.

By the way, the film roll depicted below was for demonstration purposes only, and is not the roll that I used.

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All images are ©2020 E.J.Kowalski.
Thanks! Ed