After anxiety about how to open the camera, how to load film, and how to operate the light metre, I finally shot my first roll of photos with my *new Zenit*!
Thanks to all helpers, especially the pregnant one!
Attached is the first foray into the old-school method. Comments welcome. Yeah, I know, it's just tomatoes! Check out my photo album where there are more shots, and lots more from my other new camera, a Nikon Cooplpix 5000.
2006 the year of the photo!
6 comments:
hello
nice reds there! but more specs please (shutter speed, aperture, etc).
can't say i'm a big fan of the zenit, even though it's soviet-made.
my dream machine is the Olympus OM-1.
... and like i told you the other day, you've inspired me to trawl ebay and look around 2nd hand camera shops in town to see if i can find one.
So funny that you like the Olympus which 'made claims to be the quietest and most vibration-free SLR', which is THE OPPOSITE OF MY ZENIT!
Comrade, I'll have to check my little scrap that I wrote the specs on - I'll post tomorrow.
I used the Zenit for a wedding that I photographed on Saturday and it was scary manually rewinding under pressure. Heh heh.
Luis - I took the tomato photo with 4 @ 60. Kodak 400 colour film.
comrade bonnie
thank you for the specs. that's surprisingly not grainy for a photo taken on an asa 400. kudos to kodak, i stopped using it ages ago in my poor little country in favour of better and cheaper fuji film. (kodak had this fine-print line on the label: "this film is only for sale in central america and the caribbean. made in the usa" - god knows what crappy chemicals they were selling us - they have a history of doing that, y'know).
Conspiracy theorist!
You are such a paranoid, comrade Luis!
to paraphrase the great Gabriel Garcia Marquez: the problem for every writer in Latin America is that fiction cannot keep up with reality...
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