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After several months, my local repair shop gave up to repair my first exemplary of Leningrad camera. I got that GOMZ Leningrad for less than the price of the lens (50€) a year ago (February 24, 2024, flic.kr/s/aHBqjBftyP) at the monthly collector meeting in Saint-Bonnet-de-Mure, near Lyon, France. I looked then again for a working one.
Leningrad’s are fascinating Russian range-finder 35mm camera’s produced in Leningrad (USSR) / Saint-Petersburg, from 1956 to 1968 at about 76.000 units. It is not really a rare camera but appears only from time-to-time in the classical collector’s networks.
The Leningrad camera project was developed by GOMZ company (ГОМЗ, Государственный оптико-механический завод, Ленинград = Gosularstvennyi Optiko-Mekhanicheskii Zavod =State Optical-Mechanical Factory), Leningrad, USSR. The Leningrad ’s were constructed to a very high degree of precision and likely the most advanced rangefinder ever made at that time in Russia. At the 1958 World Exposition in Brussels, the Leningrad was awarded the "Grand Prix de Bruxelles”. Modified Leningrads were also used in the Soviet space program. In addition to a complex parallax-compensated multi-focal (for 3.5, 5, 8.5 and 13.5cm) collimated system, the camera has a built-in spring-powered mechanical motor for an automated film advance after each view taken. The Leningrad monts the 39mm Leica-type thread lenses, especially of the Jupiter series of lens derived of classical Carl Zeiss lenses designed for the Contax (Biogon 3.5cm and Sonnar’s 5, 8.5 and 13.5cm).
In 1965, GOMZ became LOMO ( ЛОМО, Ленинградское oптико-механическое oбъединение (Leningradskoïe Optiko-Mekhanitcheskoïe Obiedinienie) that is still existing, producing instrumental optical devices (www.lomo.ru).
On eBay, I focused on a LOMO Leningrad year 1965 in working condition but without the original film plate. I got the camera for 130€ including the leather bag and a standard lens Jupiter-8 1:2 f=5cm. The seller adapted cleanly a different film plate that looked to work, but my idea was to use the camera back of my faulty Leningrad. This film plate may a precision glass plate special designed for optimum film transport and optical planarity. I received my new Leningrad on January 31, 2025 in good condition.
Further little improvements and restorations swapping the rewind button and the memo disk of my first Leningrad exemplary to the working one.
February 6, 2025
69004 Lyon
France
I spent last evening and today morning on him, now he´s a poodle again ((the paws still need some working on....)
Some kind of sparrow, but I don't think he's the typical house sparrow.
Fox Sparrow? Swamp Sparrow? Song Sparrow? or just a weird adolescent pattern?
Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Dec 4, 2021; in a bush with other sparrows.
Then suddenly I don't have to run...
I see the place where dreams and life become one,
and our paths come together
trailing off in the sun.
"Dream In My Life" ~ King's X
Diane was given the assignment to cover three days of The Great South Bay Music Festival at Patchogue, NY’s Shore Front Park in 2018. Click the following links to see more photographs and read her review of the event.
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The photos in this gallery are of acts that played on the main stage and a few from one of the side stages; they are of Devon Allman, Dickey Betts Band, Dirty Heads, Dudley Music, Electric Hot Tuna, JGB with Melvin Seal, Kate Usher and the Sturdy Souls, Less Than Jake, Little Feat, Om-En, Oogee Wawa, Papadosio, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Sublime with Rome and Umphrey's McGee.
Self Help Festival || 09.30.17
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Less said about this game the better - 37 lost golf balls - one rustle in the bush....drop...and then drop the ball
Less Than Jake @ La Sbiellata Sanzenese - Olgiate Molgora (LC). Pics by Davide Merli for www.rockon.it
Care More, Car-Less is an Earth Ministry program aimed at mobilizing faith communities to reduce the number of single occupant vehicles and to encourage advocacy and environmental stewardship. These images are from a Care More, Car-Less Sunday at Fauntleroy First United Church of Christ on October 12th, 2014. They highlight church members walking, biking and carpooling as well as a "Blessing of the Travelers" portion of the service. Images copyright Kristie McLean.
Diane was given the assignment to cover three days of The Great South Bay Music Festival at Patchogue, NY’s Shore Front Park in 2018. Click the following links to see more photographs and read her review of the event.
www.shutter16.com/gallery-great-south-bay-music-festival-...
AND SEE THE FULL GALLERY HERE
www.flickr.com/photos/shutter16mag/sets/72157669390661687
www.flickr.com/photos/shutter16mag/sets/72157669391610667
www.flickr.com/photos/shutter16mag/sets/72157669391724687
Please do not use any of Diane’s photos without permission.
©Diane Woodcheke
dwoodcheke@gmail.com
The photos in this gallery are of acts that played on the main stage and a few from one of the side stages; they are of Devon Allman, Dickey Betts Band, Dirty Heads, Dudley Music, Electric Hot Tuna, JGB with Melvin Seal, Kate Usher and the Sturdy Souls, Less Than Jake, Little Feat, Om-En, Oogee Wawa, Papadosio, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Sublime with Rome and Umphrey's McGee.
This example corresponds with the principle of less is more. This example shows two calculators, a simple one and a TI-84 graphing calculator. The one on the right can graph, plot, draw, etc. while the left one can just do basic math operation with no complicated actions involved. Even though the right one has many more features, in the end, they both do what a calculator is meant for, which is to do operation. However, dependng on what you want the calculator for you can choose to go with the righ or left. For example the right one might be used by someone in calculus, or some complicated math class rather than if you were just out grocery shopping and just wanting to add the prices of your groceries with the left one with no complicated actions required. The right one though also sacrifices usability for flexibility because of the so many operations it can perform. It is also way bulkier and bigger than the left one making it harder to carry around.
Diane was given the assignment to cover three days of The Great South Bay Music Festival at Patchogue, NY’s Shore Front Park in 2018. Click the following links to see more photographs and read her review of the event.
www.shutter16.com/gallery-great-south-bay-music-festival-...
AND SEE THE FULL GALLERY HERE
www.flickr.com/photos/shutter16mag/sets/72157669390661687
www.flickr.com/photos/shutter16mag/sets/72157669391610667
www.flickr.com/photos/shutter16mag/sets/72157669391724687
Please do not use any of Diane’s photos without permission.
©Diane Woodcheke
dwoodcheke@gmail.com
The photos in this gallery are of acts that played on the main stage and a few from one of the side stages; they are of Devon Allman, Dickey Betts Band, Dirty Heads, Dudley Music, Electric Hot Tuna, JGB with Melvin Seal, Kate Usher and the Sturdy Souls, Less Than Jake, Little Feat, Om-En, Oogee Wawa, Papadosio, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Sublime with Rome and Umphrey's McGee.