Halina Prefect Pseudo TLR

[david baugh]

The Halina Prefect looks like a TLR but is essentially a box camera with a very bright viewing/composing lens. Boasting a single shutter speed of 1/30th plus Bulb of course it's a simple well built camera from Hanking camera company.
It offers a cheap entry into medium format and is great fun. It's bigger and more expensive brother the A1 using the same body is a fully functional TLR.........which I hope to add to the collection soon.

 

[Donald Qualls]

Except for being 120 (as opposed to 620) this is pretty much the same idea as a Duaflex (focusing lens version), or going back twenty years or so further, an early Voigtlander Brilliant (the last version, IIRC, had a focusing patch in the bright finder and served as the pattern for the Lubitel).

 

[gone]

They sure want a lot of money for that sucker. I'd go w/ the Halina Viceroy, you get a couple of adjustments on the camera for exposure control. Sorta.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/2340476410...uPNIkpS6fJ5lhNsS8%3D|ampid:PL_CLK|clp:2047675

 

[Donald Qualls]

Based on the thumbnail of the video above, you have a choice three apertures on the Prefect -- same as on the focusing lens versions of the Duaflex.

 

[Bronson Dugnutt]

Pretty nifty; two of my favorite plasticy 35mm cameras are knock-offs of Halina models.

Haking really hit a sweet spot in the early 1970's with their simple consumer cameras. They offer better performance, flexibility, and styling than modern single-use cameras while still being compact and newbie friendly.

Pictured: The influencer-maligned Hanimex 35SE (Halina Flash 350) w/ fixed focus & 1/125s shutter; f16, 9.5, or 5.6 (only with the flash mechanically engaged) via internal 'waterhouse stops'.