This photo of my photoalbum was taken in Okinawa.

The Plaubel Makina was a series of medium format press cameras manufactured by Plaubel & Co. in Germany from 1912 through 1953, and later a Japanese-made camera distributed by Doi from 1978 through the 1980s. All Makina models had leaf shutters and rangefinder focusing with collapsible bellows. German-made Plaubel Makina models included the 1, 2, 2s, 3, and 3R. The Japanese-made Plaubel Makina was a major redesign with Nikkor lenses and integrated metering. Models 67 and 670 had Nikkor 80mm f/2.8 lenses, while the wide-angle models 67W and 670W used Nikkor 55mm f/4.5 lenses. All four models take ten 6x7cm exposures on 120 rollfilm.

Most Holga cameras use a single-piece plastic meniscus lens with a focal length of 60 millimeters and can focus from about 1 meter/yard to infinity. There is an aperture switch on the camera with two settings: sunny and cloudy. Due to a manufacturing defect[citation needed], this switch has no effect and there is only one ('sunny') aperture of around f/11 - although this switch may be easily modified to provide two usable apertures. As all single-piece meniscus lenses, the Holga lens exhibits soft focus and chromatic aberration. Other Holga variants, denoted either by the letter 'G' in their model name, or the name WOCA, feature a simple glass lens, but are otherwise identical in construction. The circle of coverage is meant to be for a 645 format, which the Holga is. When the camera mask is taken out and shot in a 6x6 (square format) the vignette is introduced.