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Documentary smartphone pictures of some accessories helpful for photography with my Zorki 1 type D (year 1955) or any Barnack Leica camera type/clone with bottom film loading.
January 26, 2023
Lyon, France.
The film trimer was home-made from a French "Requerre", a soft rule from ALEF editions, France. Swiss Victorinox Minichamps and SwissCard Lite are anyway residents of my photo bag regardless of the camera used but the scissors find here a particular application to trim the film leader for a Barnack Leica camera type. The leader should be extended to the 20th perforations and gently rounded not to damage the shutter curtains upon film initialization.
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 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.
A bridge for Patrick Henry Dr over the W&OD Trail. I appreciate when there's a sign telling us which bridge we're going below. Arlington, VA.
A couple of parking lot attendants wait to be helpful. It's very interesting how seriously people take their jobs here in Japan. Even jobs like this. In the US, you might expect to find a couple of underpaid, slightly unshaven, sweatshirt-wearing guys attending a parking lot. They may or may not look you in the eye as you enter the lot and they may or may not act like they enjoy their life in any way. But here - even dull jobs like this are performed with panache. Their uniforms would never be anything less than crisply pressed and smartly worn, and their demeanor and behavior is professional, attentive, and utterly the best of what they have to give. I believe the movie "Last Samurai" said it best when Tom Cruise says, "From the moment they wake up, these people are utterly devoted to the perfection of whatever they pursue." It is true about their hobbies, their schoolwork, their families, and their jobs. Certainly the Japanese are not without their problems, but this isn't one of them. And it's what has made them such a powerful society.
I love the colorful packaging. Couldn't see how colorful the chalk was though.
The notice near the bottom is amusing "Save packaging for future reference". Oh yes, there's so much great information here.
This was in the store window. Walgren's is so helpful, letting me know that this is a $3 item. Gee, I would have never guessed.
When I was ready to go back across the channel the original boat that brought me and a bunch of missionaries across was no where in sight. These guys pulled their boat into the water to take me back across the channel to Bikenubati - seen in distance. I tried to pay them, but they refused payment. No motor on the boat - they pushed it across using a long stick.
[View Large] Today I was able to make a follow up trip back to the Rocky Hill area, including Yokohl Valley road and the surrounding area. I took a number of shots at various locations, chasing the light in the cloud filled sky. The best of the images will become part of a series on this area, which I intend to complete during the next month, if time permits.
Any feedback and/or comments on these individual images would be helpful to me, in both selecting which images to use, and in deciding on any post processing adjustments that I might need to consider. All comments would be greatly appreciated. Have a great week.
LOL! , the Apt.Mgmt. resealed & painted the pool area ,Penny thought if She helped She could get back on her floatiee thing sooner
Mom spotted Newspaper Blackout in the Barnes and Noble at William and Mary (she loves Williamsburg, VA)
Bargain bin hair wasn't fixed with a boil wash! How do you get the kinks out?! I'm not ready to concede to a haircut or try a reroot just yet. Any ideas Flickrland?!
Tiger just helping me stick sticker
Today I already buy you sticker I will send it as soon as I finished work
I have shootting day on 31-5 February after that I can go to post office
And I know how to send it to you hope that you will see it soon.
I park next to this thinking it is a pay station (I have not bought the semester permit yet) to buy the daily pass and discover there is not one here, but there is what appears to be a fire pit in it.
Strawberry fair, lots of entertainment, lots of people dressed in all styles and all ages - one of the best days of the year