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Gorgoues lenses. If you get a chance, buy one.
For portraits and softer lens choose the f1.2 version.
If you want tack sharp center grab a cheaper f1.4.
A gift from a friend, it has come in handy for Red Oktober this year, seeing as all my other FSU cameras have issues, and I have not been working on cameras for a while.
Though it looks like it is built like a tank, I've got some Japanese cameras that are smaller yet heavier and more solid, belying it's humble beginnings as a knock-off of the Leica II, the Zorki-1.
An improvement to the Zenit E, the meter cells are now inside the body, and are CdS instead of selenium. Which means the need of a 625 1.35v battery. It didn't matter, because the meter is dead or stuck in this one, so I just used Sunny-16 to guide me on the exposures, factoring in the yellow filter mounted on front of the lens.
I only missed on one shot from the whole roll, but that was because I forgot to reset the aperture. The camera handles well, it doesn't feel too cheap though not very impressive either. The lens is nice and sharp, and without a filter on front gives a bluish look in the viewfinder. This kind of reminds me of those pocket blue filters a photographer could use in the early days to determine how the scene would look on b&w film. I didn't notice any flare from the Helios-44M, using a Nikon collapsible rubber hood.
Overall a good camera to have, since you no longer have to worry about burning a hole in the shutter curtains, like all the rangefinder models are prone to. I may get some more lenses for it later on.
A better shot with better lighting. Not using flash, but took advice from www.flickr.com/photos/dzinks/ anyway. Daylight from front + white cardboard behind to reflect back + daylight-type artificial light from the side.
Our Daily Challenge - The Other Side
This is a vintage Contessa LKE that I have on trial - the hardest part of shooting with a vintage camera is that the view finder is separate from the lens - the focus is pretty touch and go too!
As soon as this spool is done I will share the results.
So from digital to film - I'll cover all sides ;)
When ya got trouble, you better call in the experts to fix it.
Monthly Scavenger Hunt - May 2013 - #15 - Ya Got Trouble
From Wiki:
A twin-lens reflex camera (TLR) is a type of camera with two objective lenses of the same focal length. One of the lenses is the photographic objective or "taking lens" (the lens that takes the picture), while the other is used for the viewfinder system, which is usually viewed from above at waist level. In addition to the objective, the viewfinder consists of a 45-degree mirror (the reason for the word reflex in the name), a matte focusing screen at the top of the camera, and a pop-up hood surrounding it. The two objectives are connected, so that the focus shown on the focusing screen will be exactly the same as on the film. However, many inexpensive TLRs are fixed-focus models. Most TLRs use leaf shutters with shutter speeds up to 1/500th sec with a B setting.
For practical purposes, all TLRs are film cameras, most often using 120 film, although there are many examples which used other formats. No general-purpose digital TLRs exist, since their heyday ended long prior to the digital era. The main exception is the collector-oriented Rollei Mini-Digi, introduced as a rather expensive "toy" in 2004.[1]
My old ME Super is being repaired now, so i've got another one. At last I found time to shot it. There is a Super Takumar 50/1.4 screw lens on it via adapter. Shot with Pentax k-x + SMC Pentax-M 50/1.7 wide open.
For when I'm not able to bring along the DSLR. Those vintage good looks made hard to resist taking a shot.
This glass is likely older than I am (made between 1977 and 1981). It's in beautiful condition. Mounted on my Nikon FM.
Fuji GS645W is a serious proffesional 6x4,5 medium-format rangefinder camera which is quite unknown, unpopular and underrated.
Medium format is perfect for landscape photography. However, it is difficult to find a compact camera with a wide angle lens. The old folders are very cool and absolutely fun to use and they can also deliver good results but the more modern medium format rangefinder cameras are much better. After some research, i narrowed my choices to Mamiya 6 or Fuji GSW 690.
Mamiya was sifted out because of the high used prices. Fuji is cheaper but i couldn't convince myself to buy that "brick".
In the verge of giving up or saving more money for a 6x17 panoramic camera, i ran across this little (for medium format, it really IS little) beauty and was totally surprised by the low price.
So, after chilling around with many other medium format cameras and dreaming of expensive brothers like Mamiya 7, i finally settled at Fuji GS645W.
If you have a high quality scanner and don't need very large prints; the lighter, smaller and more handsome 6x4,5 format is more than enough.
The newer Fuji GA series have autofocus and auto exposure but imo are not as well designed as the GS series. They also lack the oldschool, mechanical feeling.
Another rangefinder 6x4,5 medium format camera is the Bronica RF 645 but as they are very popular amongst collectors and camera geeks, the prices are at least triple so much as the fixed lens fuji medium format rangefinders.
I got my Fujica GS645W for 280€ from a seller in UK in a very good condition as you can see. The only flaw is a tiny spot on the lens which has nearly no effect on the image.
Finally getting around to rebuilding my apartment building for Brickfair VA 2014s Halo Collab moc. Im going to try to add an interior and get some better shots of it while I wait for the standards to come in for next years Halo Collab!
2 Softbox 90x90, cada uno a un lado del objeto, y con un Yogngnuo YN-III a 1/128 dentro.
Revelado con Darktable, y con GIMP 2.8.16 sobre Linux.
This rare model of Olympus SLR was sold only between 1971 and 1972 a seven month run.
Historically it was sandwiched between two landmark cameras, the Pen F series and the OM line. Half frames were out and full frame cameras were in but when Photokina rolled around Olympus had nothing to show. The OM had been in design for 6 years but it was not ready.
It has not been revealed who designed the camera, I am pretty sure it was not Olympus, look at it, it is so much like the Canon FP/FT; Minolta SR; Ricoh TLS; Topcon UniRex; Yashica J3 etc. Some do claim it was manufactured by Olympus. Whoever knows is not telling.
So typically non-Olympus they used a M42 thread (special) Zuiko lenses. All previous Zuiko interchangeable lenses had a claw or bayonet mount exclusively designed for Olympus cameras. This Zuiko screw mount lens locked on the camera, the lens was never over or under tightened it also featured a stopper to fix the position of the lens to provided precise exposure linkage based on open-aperture metering.
Also typically non-Olympus is the film rewind button, it is on the bottom not the face of the camera. And even though Olympus may not have designed this camera or the lens they still demanded a quality product.
This camera is so defiantly not an Olympus designed product, and I am Oly girl at heart but still it is a pleasure to use and I enjoy having it in my collection.
Image by Leslie Lazenby
January 2014