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We recently purchased some point and shoot cameras, one of those is the above camera, a King Regula Sprinty C300.

It’s a point and shoot 35mm camera with an uncoupled light meter and an aperture ring with fixed shutter times for every aperture. The focus ring works in the zone system, which means that you have to guess the distance between the camera and the subject.

The Regula Sprinty was a long-running series of cameras made at Bad Liebenzell by King KG. This particular version of the sprint was made in 1971. The camera has an aperture of 2.8 till 16 and a shutter speed from 1/30th to 1/300th of a second.

There isn’t much to tell about the camera, except that the light meter at the top, gives you an reading which you have to translate to the settings on the lens. The camera is limited to giving at most 3 shutter times for every aperture.

The design is very basic, the body is made of anodised aluminium and plastic. It feels very light, but the pictures that come out of it, are quite ok. They are not top notch, but they are a lot better than every toy camera I have used till now.

It’s not the best camera I have ever used, but it’s the worst either. Will I use this one a lot, not that much, but it will probably be a camera I’m going to use in the winter during the day, to do some street photography. Because with a top shutter speed of 1/300th, you can’t really use it in the summer.

The camera is not very sophisticated, but it’s just so easy to use.

Carlos Alves de Sousa