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Friday Photos 2012 #flickr #fp2012 #week44 #vintage
For Today's FP2012 theme of Vintage, I've gone with my vintage sub-miniature camera collection.
The Kiev Vega was a design that the Soviets stole from the Minolta company.
The camera in front is the Vega model A and dates from 1960. The design was improved on throughout the Vega's evolution, however the materials got cheaper and by the 1990s, the casings were being made out of plastic instead of the classic aluminium.
The cameras used 16mm film, of which I still have a few rolls. The film was loaded into a cassette in a darkroom, so the cassette could be loaded easily in daylight without ruining the film by exposure to light. The film wound by pulling out the body of the camera (like the one in front), then pushing it back in. The photo was taken with the button you can see on top of the camera.
Sellers on eBay say that the KGB used to use these cameras but compact as the Vega was, I think they might have had something a little more sophisticated.
Friday Photos 2012 #flickr #fp2012 #week44 #vintage
For Today's FP2012 theme of Vintage, I've gone with my vintage sub-miniature camera collection.
The Kiev Vega was a design that the Soviets stole from the Minolta company.
The camera in front is the Vega model A and dates from 1960. The design was improved on throughout the Vega's evolution, however the materials got cheaper and by the 1990s, the casings were being made out of plastic instead of the classic aluminium.
The cameras used 16mm film, of which I still have a few rolls. The film was loaded into a cassette in a darkroom, so the cassette could be loaded easily in daylight without ruining the film by exposure to light. The film wound by pulling out the body of the camera (like the one in front), then pushing it back in. The photo was taken with the button you can see on top of the camera.
Sellers on eBay say that the KGB used to use these cameras but compact as the Vega was, I think they might have had something a little more sophisticated.