ken_kuzenski Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 <p><br />I've been shooting B&W 6x6 again recently, and having a lot of fun. I absolutely never expected to shoot 35mm film again, until a whim (possibly aided by one glass too many of wine at dinner) led me to buy a Zorki-4K on a large auction site. And it's been a bundle o' fun.<br> It's remarkably sturdy feeling and appears to be well made. With the first roll I had a hair of trouble with the film advance, but that was probably "learning curve" on my part. I don't think the lens is perhaps quite as sharp as my friend's G2 ... but it's a fun camera to play with. I haven't had a rangefinder since I gave away an Argus C3 25 years ago, and I had forgotten how easy it is to focus a rangefinder in good light. I won't try anything serious with it, probably, but it's been a bunch of fun.<br> Plus, on the rare occasions when someone asks me what it is, I can say, "Ees elegant Soviet camera of rangefinding design, using modern film of 35mm roll, built by heroic workers of peoples' camera factory een Krasnogorsk!" (I'm old and the Soviet era is still recent to me.) :-) "Badenov! Keel moose and squirrel!" :-)<br> <img src="/photo/17949296" alt="" /></p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 <p>Velcome to the club - Vee haf vays of making you photograph!</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mukul_dube Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 <p>Mr. Kuzenski, is this meant to be humour?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochen_S Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 <p>No, Mukul thats everyday reality, if you shoot them among digitalized people. - Although I ended switching to Leica I can imagine the old Soviet LTM gear to be still fun as long as one doesn't rely on it to focus portraits with a wide open 85mm f2...<br> My favorite body so far is the FED 2, due to its wider diopter adjustment range and strap lugs, but I bought a Zorki 4K too.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken_kuzenski Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 <p>Mr. Dube, to an American of my age, the phrasing of official Soviet press announcements (1950s to 1970s) were indeed amusing. Memories of those are what what my mock-Soviet statement was meant to invoke. I certainly didn't mean to offend anybody. And if you are unfamiliar with American idiom, you might not know that the reference to killing moose and squirrel was an extra indication that it was intended humorously. I'm sorry if it bothered you. --ken</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mukul_dube Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 <p>The phrasing were and are amusing also of many official statements from other countries, not excluding the U.S.A.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knut_schwinzer Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 <p>Good evening gentlemen, may I ask what means "B&W 6x6" in this context?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken_kuzenski Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 you are entirely correct, my friend, but public statements from officials in Alabama and Wyoming are not as amusing to those of us who have to live with them. :-):-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken_kuzenski Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 Knut my friend, pardon my crude speech to text converter, by 6 by 6 B & W I mean a medium format-, 6 X 6 cm negative, on black and white film. This is a very old way of doing photography but it is one that still brings me very much pleasure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mukul_dube Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 <p>There are members here whose names could be Russian or Ukrainian or Georgian, and it is by no means certain that they live in Michigan rather than in Minsk. There may also be a few who do not hold that the era that began with the October Revolution of 1917 was a Punch and Judy show.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baisao Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 <p>Speaking anecdotally: my Russian friends <em>whom I love as my own family</em>, who grew-up in the USSR, lived in secret cities, with parents as party members, and family in eastern Ukraine, and still have close ties to the politics of Russia/Ukraine/Crimea/Sakhalin, they would very likely find Ken's comment humorous. In fact I have no doubt about it. They are some of the most fun, humorous, good-natured people I have had the pleasure to know.</p> <p>It's abundantly clear that Ken's comment was meant to be silly, not insulting to the imagined Bolsheviks that lurk here.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken_jeanette1 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 <p>Is this an illustration of how wars start?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donald_miller5 Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Late to jump in but if you go to classic manual camera forum and then to Modern Photography 50 years ago 1960 the is a piece by a photographer on photography in the Soviet Union. My wife was born in Moscow in 1951 and we have a very circle of Russian friends here and there. Everyone found the article very amusing about how he was taken in and the misinformation he was given. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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