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Soviet bakelite camera.
Camera: Школъник (Shkolnik)
Manufacturer: MMZ-BelOMO
Shutter speeds: 1/60 and B
Lens: Triplet 1:8/75mm
Apertures: f8, f11, f16
Film size: 120
Negative size: 6x6cm; 12 exposures per roll
Shot of the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin-Treptow. It was built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate the Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April-May 1945. It opened four years after the war ended on May 8, 1949, and served as the central war memorial of East Germany.
One of the government flunkies came by each compartment in the train to tell us not to take any pictures, as we were travelling through a sensitive military zone. Of course the first thing we did as soon as he left was to get out our cameras and take pictures. It probably wouldn't even have occurred to us had he not warned us against it.
Back in the Cold War of the late '60s and early '70s, the Soviets would continually harass our Navy ships by unsafe close approaches and cutting them off. There were shot in the Mediterranean.
Images are copies of slides shot with a Lumix S1 and Sigma 90mm macro.
For the good of the Party, Comrades!
Okay, it's not really a "spy" camera (as far as I know). It's a vintage Soviet camera, called a Kiev 30. It's a "miniature format" camera that uses 16mm film. 16mm is the same size as 110, but this camera uses kind of a weird cartridge. It looks somewhat similar to 110, but it uses unperforated film (no sprocket holes).
This camera is so cool. It looks like it's really well made, everything on it is metal. It's also completely manual exposure - you adjust the shutter speed and aperture. It even has manual focus. That's really unusual for a miniature camera like this. With manual exposure, you can get much better pictures.
I think I found where I can get the film too. I found a website for a guy who sells film cut into different sizes. He specializes in miniature format film. And he can re-load cartridges, including the kind of cartridge that the Kiev 30 uses. I just emailed him, and hopefully he will reply. If I can get cartridges re-loaded with black and white film (like maybe Kodak Plus-X) then I can develop the film myself.
I also want to try color film with this camera, but I'm looking for a lab that will develop 16mm film. Dwayne's Photo does develop 110 film, and technically 16mm is the same size as 110. But when I called and asked if they could develop film from a re-loaded cartridge, the lady I talked to said that they don't want to develop custom loaded film because they've had problems with the film not being cut straight and it getting damaged.
I'll figure it out eventually.
Taken from the Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age exhibition at the Science Museum (September 2015 to March 2016).
This photo is part of a set which shows a trip that delegates from a Teacher's Labour League took from the United Kingdom to the Soviet Union in 1926. Two members of the National Union of Women Teachers, Ethel Froud (General Secretary) and Miss V. Hunt (Legal Aid Secretary) went on this trip.
This photo has no description but Miss V Hunt is fourth from the left and Ethel Froud is second from the right.
If you would like to read more about the Teacher's Labour League trip to the Soviet Union please see our Tumblr exhibition created by Sean Curran