Zorki 1 Type D Svema Foto 400
A second test film with my Zorki 1 type D (year 1955), Lyon, France, January 16, 2023, after the range-finder adjustment and the receipt of small accessories as a metal push-on shade hood and FOCA filters A36 made in France in the 50's.
The Zorki was loaded with a 36-exposure Svema Foto 400 exposed for 400 ISO. Svema Foto 400 is a superpanchromatic film sensitized in the red to 780 nm and coated on a very thin clear PET base. The anti-halation is provided by water-soluble black and blue pigments coated on the back and similar to one used for Rollei Retro 400S (Agfa Aviphot 400).
For this film the Industar-22 lens was equipped with a 36mm push-on "1A" (likely the so-called "Skylight") filter and unknown brand (not FOCA) and a generic metal cylindric shade hood.
Expositions were determined using a Minolta Autometer III with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas. The possible slight absorption of the 1A filter was not corrected.
Montée Bonafous, January 16, 2023
69001 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was processed using Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer at dilution 1+25, 20°C for 10min30, with the same developing time as the Rollei Retro 400S film.
The film was then digitalized using a Sony A7 body adapted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III and a Minolta Slide Duplicator using a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5 at a reproduction ratio of 1:1. The reproduced RAW files obtained were processed in LR prior the the final JPEG editions.
During the photo session, after several views, the film cartridge did not rotate freely retaining the film too much. Before I found that I could help the film to exit from the cartridge by counter rotating the rewind button, some views were overlapped significantly and a bit off-centered, fortunately without film damage.
All views of the film are presented (with resizing for overlapped ones) in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg.
Contrary to the previous Svema Foto 400 films where quality problems were noticed, no polluted zone were detected here. This film was attached to the spool by a paper sticker and not the adhesive tape of the other Svema (Astrum) film that a suspected possibly to damage the emulsion by releasing some chemicals.
About the camera and the lens:
This camera is a practically mint sample of Zorki 1 arrived to me in Lyon, France, January 10, 2023.
The camera looked exiting from the KMZ factory in USSR almost 70 years later spent in a time capsule ... with almost no traces of use. According to a custom receipt of July 28, 1955, signed in Vienna, Austria, the camera body and lens are the original matched ones. As for the original FED, FED-Zorki and Zorki's ("ФЭД", "ФЭД-Зоркий", „Зоркий“), the Zorki 1 was a straight legal copy of the Oskar Barnack Leica II after the cancelation of German camera patents following the end of WWII.
This Zorki 1 is a type D model PM1115 (year 1955 according sovietcams.com/index7584.html). Type D Zorki's were produced from 1953 to 1955 in about 250.000 units with serial numbers ranging from #470.000 to (in 1955) #55 45.000. The original lens of this Zorki units is an collapsible lens Industar-22 1:3.5 f=5cm.
In the rear pocket of the ever-ready leather bag was deposited the custom receipt and a film label of Agfa negative-color CN17 likely from the 60's.
Zorki 1 Type D Svema Foto 400
A second test film with my Zorki 1 type D (year 1955), Lyon, France, January 16, 2023, after the range-finder adjustment and the receipt of small accessories as a metal push-on shade hood and FOCA filters A36 made in France in the 50's.
The Zorki was loaded with a 36-exposure Svema Foto 400 exposed for 400 ISO. Svema Foto 400 is a superpanchromatic film sensitized in the red to 780 nm and coated on a very thin clear PET base. The anti-halation is provided by water-soluble black and blue pigments coated on the back and similar to one used for Rollei Retro 400S (Agfa Aviphot 400).
For this film the Industar-22 lens was equipped with a 36mm push-on "1A" (likely the so-called "Skylight") filter and unknown brand (not FOCA) and a generic metal cylindric shade hood.
Expositions were determined using a Minolta Autometer III with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas. The possible slight absorption of the 1A filter was not corrected.
Montée Bonafous, January 16, 2023
69001 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was processed using Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer at dilution 1+25, 20°C for 10min30, with the same developing time as the Rollei Retro 400S film.
The film was then digitalized using a Sony A7 body adapted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III and a Minolta Slide Duplicator using a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5 at a reproduction ratio of 1:1. The reproduced RAW files obtained were processed in LR prior the the final JPEG editions.
During the photo session, after several views, the film cartridge did not rotate freely retaining the film too much. Before I found that I could help the film to exit from the cartridge by counter rotating the rewind button, some views were overlapped significantly and a bit off-centered, fortunately without film damage.
All views of the film are presented (with resizing for overlapped ones) in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg.
Contrary to the previous Svema Foto 400 films where quality problems were noticed, no polluted zone were detected here. This film was attached to the spool by a paper sticker and not the adhesive tape of the other Svema (Astrum) film that a suspected possibly to damage the emulsion by releasing some chemicals.
About the camera and the lens:
This camera is a practically mint sample of Zorki 1 arrived to me in Lyon, France, January 10, 2023.
The camera looked exiting from the KMZ factory in USSR almost 70 years later spent in a time capsule ... with almost no traces of use. According to a custom receipt of July 28, 1955, signed in Vienna, Austria, the camera body and lens are the original matched ones. As for the original FED, FED-Zorki and Zorki's ("ФЭД", "ФЭД-Зоркий", „Зоркий“), the Zorki 1 was a straight legal copy of the Oskar Barnack Leica II after the cancelation of German camera patents following the end of WWII.
This Zorki 1 is a type D model PM1115 (year 1955 according sovietcams.com/index7584.html). Type D Zorki's were produced from 1953 to 1955 in about 250.000 units with serial numbers ranging from #470.000 to (in 1955) #55 45.000. The original lens of this Zorki units is an collapsible lens Industar-22 1:3.5 f=5cm.
In the rear pocket of the ever-ready leather bag was deposited the custom receipt and a film label of Agfa negative-color CN17 likely from the 60's.