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[Gravity Aided]

As would most Soviet / East German camera gear of that time. I have a fair bit of it - mostly East German.

One of the characters in my novel owns a Zenit.

I owned their 6x6 camera, imaginatively named the Zenit 66. Great huge camera, like the Pentax 6x7.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Reminded me of my Zorki, used to rip the film sprockets!

I had an early one, but traded it for a FED.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I also had the Kiev, as it fit the lenses from my fathers' Contax. I liked it most of the Soviet 35mm lot of cameras.

 

[classic33]

I also had the Kiev, as it fit the lenses from my fathers' Contax. I liked it most of the Soviet 35mm lot of cameras.

No US manufacturers on your camera list?

 

[biggs682]

Morning y'all
Looks clear outside
Maybe a hint of a frost on car roof's

 

[Tribansman]

I'm gut-achingly hungry this morning.
Corn flakes and bagels are a-calling

 

[Hebe]

So, all in all, you're in credit! Shame about the velcro though.

Yes. Considering how sticky a velcro strap is, it's surprisingly easy to lose . Gloves socks etc all now clean and drying and will go back to school in the hope that karma will oblige with the strap.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I just trimmed my beard; It was getting a bit hairy.

 

[biggs682]

I just trimmed my beard; It was getting a bit hairy.

Had it started to itch ?

First cuppa went down well
Clear blue skies
cat has been fed

 

[Illaveago]

I have one of those, I hate loading it but I love playing around with the focus. I always end up with way under 36 exposures by the time I've got the film tail properly trimmed.
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Savernake Forest on an unfocused Zorki. Complete with dodgy light piping on lower edge.

Pin sharp to me !

 

[Illaveago]

Morning .
It is frosty here but I can see blue sky. I had a go at taking an atmospheric shot with one of the lenses this morning . Having to use twiddly bits instead of just setting it on automatic is allowing me to experiment a bit .
I'm waiting in today for a doctor's phone call .My high blood pressure seems to be going back to normal .

 

[oldwheels]

On most of the roads I drive on, that is fast enough anyway. Gives time to avoid hitting the sheep. No motorways here!

An BT engineer I knew taped a referee's whistle to the chassis of his van which seemed to scare the sheep off the road he claimed. The local mobile dentist had some interesting tales about sheep as well as he drove a large mobile surgery around on our single track roads.

 

[oldwheels]

Likewise out here... No sheep, but we do get suicidal pheasants, not to mention escaped potatoes and sugar beet.

Should keep you in meat and veg then. I have had freshly killed and relatively undamaged pheasant. Very good it was too.

 

[oldwheels]

Still damp here but less wind. Heavy showers here tho' so looks like no triking until Wednesday afternoon.
Our Post Office is shut for at least a week due to the staff being infected with virus. Nearest alternative is 10 miles away for anything urgent.
The funny car stories yesterday reminds me of the guy in Dervaig who came out of the Bellachroy, got into his Vauxhall Nova and drove home. When he got there he could not get into his house entrance due to a Vauxhall Nova parked there.

 

[tyred]

I suffered an unscheduled precipitation event on this morning's walk