about 2 weeks ago, I had made a post about old Russian cameras and the fun to use them with their basic technology as the old famous photographers used to. My respect for these guys has seriously increased since I’ve started. I had put a picture of the Zorki 4. Another model, the Zorki C, is shown here. Yes this one really looks like a Leica II from the 30’s. These are old copies, not quite fake, labelled Zorki and not Leica. So they are legal to buy and nevertheless I’ll have a real Leica II or similar model before long, I prefer to learn the skills to use those Russian antiques and trash a cheap copy instead of a vintage Leica under the harsh Tanzanian conditions of life. My leica M6, mush more recent and stronger, keeps me patient in the meantime.
Zanzibar, so here is Karine with her Zorki C, shooting me shooting her with my Zorki 4.
volcano Oldoinyo Lengai in action last year.
up and below, Arusha, on the slopes of mount Meru.
in the garden.
a red filter on a BW film will make a blue sky darker, more dramatic
one of the Caravans I used to fly, Ndutu airstrip.
the same volcano, on quiet days.
the black tone is the result of fresh lava particles dropped on the top. The
white tone is also lava particles but whitened after a few days by oxidization.
I suspect the apparent grain on some of these pictures above might be due to
underexposure while shooting, like this one above…
whereas this one, from the same film, is sharp and grainless. As I had explained,
there is no lightmeter on these cameras. So my judgment, once in a while…
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