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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.
After a very careful inspection and a detailled cleaning, I decided to make a test film using a FOMAPAN 200 black-and-white film. On the Leningrad it is said that there is absolutely no way to check the correct film advance during the shooting session. The rewind should not be up since the mechanical forces induced would be too high for the spring-powered spooling barrel. The film should be also in a quality not too tight film cartridge and should be checked before use. This stressful machine should be manipulated with maximum care when not familiar with it.
For all the frames, the Jupiter lens was fitted with a Hoya HMC anti-UV filter (40.5mm). The light metering was done for 160 ISO using my external light meter Minolta Autometer III with the 10° viewer for selective metering privileging the shadows areas or the integrating opale dome for incident light metering. The weather was a bit cold (4°C) covered leading to very flat and low-contrast scene outdoor.
February 3, 2025
Parc de la Tête d’Or
69006 Lyon
France
By safety (I don’t what’s happening when the end-of-film blocks the advance), I stopped the session at the frame 35. What is more, for each new views, the Leningrad barrel spool does a fixed half turn. This induces a growing interspace gap as the film advances. Finally, the film was rewound normally and processed using 350 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer prepared at the dilution 1+25 for 5min30 at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) fitted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III with the Minolta slide duplication accessory and Minolta Macro Bellow lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel CineStill Cine-lite.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within the latest version available of Adobe Lightroom Classic (version 14.1.1) and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printer files with a frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
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glasgow shawbridge corridor demolitions today 30.08.2009
I quickly took this movie as I had forgotten about the demolitions and dashed over there. I only had my little camera, so to get it all in I put it on its side.
Sooo....tilt to view 8D
Crawford, Will, Artist. "Hands up!" As Santa Claus looks to some of us. / Will Crawford. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, Puck Building, 1912. Image retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011649408/. (Accessed November 26, 2016.)
Call Number: Illus. in AP101.P7 1912 (Case X) [P&P]
Notes:
Title from item.
Caption: As Santa Claus looks to some of us.
Illus. in: Puck, v. 72, no. 1867 (1912 December 11), cover.
Copyright 1912 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
Note – This image has been digitally adjusted for one or more of the following:
- fade correction,
- color, contrast, and/or saturation enhancement
- selected spot and/or scratch removal
- cropped for composition and/or to accentuate subject
Mayan ruins at Tikal Guatemala;
Holga 120N using Rollei Retro 400 B&B film, developed in Rodinal 1:50
Getting a clear signal at Cp K001 Hickory St. on the UP KC Metro Sub is this eastbound manifest bound for for Neff Yard in Kansas City, MO. 9/25/14.
For OLW Word Up #25: Grow.
Me and my dd.
Thanks for looking :-)!
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Papers: Sassafras. Bingo card, ticket and letters: Jenni Bowlin.
Reading Food Growing Network (RFGN) and food4families setting up their stall at the 2018 Reading Water Fest.
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On the back of a pickup truck in South Australia after breaking down in the outback.
Doom has created a new model of Doombot. As you can see, it is only a prototype, being tested before attaching the goblet of Doom.
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