Zorki 1D HP5+ 800
An Ilford HP5+ exposed for 800 ISO film with my Zorki 1 type D (year 1955), Lyon, France, February 5, 2023.
The Zorki camera was loaded with a 36-exposure Ilford HP5+ film, with its leader trimmed for old Leica's. During operations the Industar-22 lens was equipped with a 36mm push-on 1A filter and a generic metal cylindric shade hood.
Expositions were determined for 800 ISO using a Minolta Autometer III with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas.
Typically the shutter exposure time was 1/200s with diaphragm of F/5.6 to f/11 for a quite cloudy weather.
Place Saint-Jean, February 5, 2023
69005 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was processed using Adox Adonal (= Agfa Rodinal) developer at dilution 1+25, 20°C for 8 min according to development data for pushing the HP5+ film to 800 ISO. 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.
All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg.
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 still deposited the Austrian custom receipt from 1955 and a film label of Agfa negative-color CN17 likely from the 60's.
Zorki 1D HP5+ 800
An Ilford HP5+ exposed for 800 ISO film with my Zorki 1 type D (year 1955), Lyon, France, February 5, 2023.
The Zorki camera was loaded with a 36-exposure Ilford HP5+ film, with its leader trimmed for old Leica's. During operations the Industar-22 lens was equipped with a 36mm push-on 1A filter and a generic metal cylindric shade hood.
Expositions were determined for 800 ISO using a Minolta Autometer III with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas.
Typically the shutter exposure time was 1/200s with diaphragm of F/5.6 to f/11 for a quite cloudy weather.
Place Saint-Jean, February 5, 2023
69005 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was processed using Adox Adonal (= Agfa Rodinal) developer at dilution 1+25, 20°C for 8 min according to development data for pushing the HP5+ film to 800 ISO. 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.
All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg.
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 still deposited the Austrian custom receipt from 1955 and a film label of Agfa negative-color CN17 likely from the 60's.