Sometimes Shit Happens
I have a Kiev 4 camera that... lets say needs some work. Most of its idiosyncrasies are manageable, but folks who have shot one of these cameras are probably aware of how widely variable the frame spacing can be. Mine only came with a used film spool, not an actual takeup spool, so I made my own by cutting a slot in the film spool and gluing canister caps to each side. It works now after I've hammered all of the metal edges down around the lip of the spool, but the first attempt... didn't. This was the result. The modified spool bound up for the last 10 or so frames and I only noticed once I made it to frame 40 without having to rewind. In the end though, I kind of like the look in a weird collage sort of way.
Shot on a Kiev 4, scanned with an XT5
Sometimes Shit Happens
I have a Kiev 4 camera that... lets say needs some work. Most of its idiosyncrasies are manageable, but folks who have shot one of these cameras are probably aware of how widely variable the frame spacing can be. Mine only came with a used film spool, not an actual takeup spool, so I made my own by cutting a slot in the film spool and gluing canister caps to each side. It works now after I've hammered all of the metal edges down around the lip of the spool, but the first attempt... didn't. This was the result. The modified spool bound up for the last 10 or so frames and I only noticed once I made it to frame 40 without having to rewind. In the end though, I kind of like the look in a weird collage sort of way.
Shot on a Kiev 4, scanned with an XT5