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This camera, produced in the early 1970’s, has a lot in common with others produced at the same time. What I call 1,2,3 photography.

1. Focus
2. Meter for exposure
3. Click for photo.

It really is that simple. As a consequence there are very few frills about the Chinon CX. Although having said that, you do get a maximum shutter speed of 1000th of a second and a dedicated lever to get a double exposure. You will also note from the picture below you get a very helpful reminder of what film you have in the camera or if indeed it is empty. Cool!

Sadly my Chinon CX has a non functioning light meter and since I’m not very good at ‘sunny 16’ I used a hand held light meter. Slow but sure.

So loading the camera with some FujiFilm 200 and fitting my trusty Pentacon 50mm 1.8 lens I took out for a spin.

While using the Chinon CX I was initially concerned that the film was not being fully advanced since the film wind on lever has such a small throw, about 70°.

When I did eventually finish the film the wind on lever got stuck midway preventing the rewind button from being pressed in . So I had to remove the film from the camera in the changing bag.