#soviet camera

[nyklich]

shot on 1956 zorki-s with 1951 industar-22 lens (film: kodak gold 200)

[lforlimbo]

I  will love you in small ways the way rain touches windows quietly, without asking for permission. I will love you like the breath that hides inside the chest of a sleeping bird— fragile, and almost not there and if tomorrow my heart forgets to wake, promise me you will carry its last warmth in your hands as though it were a fallen petal too tender to leave on the ground for I. 

[rawanaloguewastrel]

I hybridized my LOMO Smenas.

Before on the left, after on the right, more info below the cut!

I've had these two Smenas for a good while. The Smena 8 on the right was the first film camera i bought, even. All the way back in mid-2024 after seeing it in a 2nd-hand store and wondering what a camera with Cyrillic on the front was doing in the Home Counties. The Smena 8M on the left i bought a little while ago for bugger-all, and somewhat predictably, neither worked. The Smena 8's film advance is broken (hence the lack of top cover), and the Smena 8M's focusing helicoid is... Somehow Broken™. I don't know how yet, i haven't dismantled it. Fortunately, i'm in luck. Once you get past the different externals, the internals to the Smena 8 and 8M are very similar. See below.

The Lens/Shutter units are held on by two long screws, and two long screws alone. The screws are identical in design and length between the cameras, same head, same thread, same everything. Very handy, considering these two cameras were made, in my case, twenty years apart. '69 for the 8, '89 for the 8M. The Screw pattern on the backs of the Lens/Shutter units is, unsurprisingly, also the same. See below.

The linkages are, unsurprisingly, identical also. As is the shutter, and the lens. Same unit, different styling. This makes things REAL handy to swap over if, in cases like mine, you've two cameras with different malfunctions. I'm gonna be testing the Smena 8G ("Гибридный"/"Gibridnyy", "Hybrid", according to google translate) whenever i have the energy, which currently i do not. It's bloody cold here and it's sapping all of my energy and motivation. My kingdom for a dry sunny 25C+ day, good fuckin' god. Once i've put a roll through it, i'll be posting updates. Keep an eye out!

[sablephotography]

Kodak Gold shot at box speed but pushed 2 stops in development, Kiev 6C, MC Vega 28-B 120mm f/2.8

[madraruadh]

Shooting on a Zenit-E photo dump

[wolfshadowhill]

Once again on my photography BS again.

Shot on my Zenit EM, Kodak Ektachrome E100

[swordvixen]

End of an Era

The very last roll of film I had from my student days in London. I bought this roll of Ilford HP5 in 2004. Apart from exposing 2 additional stops this roll shot perfectly. Ilford quality!

[chuckbbird]

an Autumn stroll.