Bill Watts
Well-Known Member
Recent "Fotospiel" adventure around Altona.
"It'll be fun" they said - I made the mistake of choosing my Kiev 88 for this round - 2.5kg of Soviet engineering. To be honest I picked it up for a song a few years ago complete with a 30mm f3.5 Zodiak-8 fisheye lens which was worth more than I paid for the complete outfit. Basically it is a Soviet Zeiss Disatagon copy.
Anyway loaded up a roll of Ilford HP5+ (not my favourite film, I never seem to get the best out of it) as the roll of FP4+ had disappeared from my bag. The word for the day was Crusader cross or cruise liner.
Some images below from the day.
Processed in Ilford Ilfotec-DD-X and scanned in 24bit colour at 3200 dpi. Converted to black and white in Affinity Photo II
Grain wise pretty good for HP5, but muddy images unlike the ones I get from my Zenzas.
Kiev 88, Vega 12b 90mm f2.8 at 1/250s f11.
Kiev 88, Vega 12b 90mm f2.8 @ 1/500s, f11. (Off Fotospiel topic, but quite a nice image)
Kiev 88, Vega 12b 90mm f2.8, @ 1/60s, f8
Kiev 88, Zodiak-8, 30mm, f3.5 @ 1/500s, f11.
The camera and lenses are functional, the film back needs a little attention as it is slipping slightly, I lined up the numbers via the window in the rear of the film back by manual winding.
All finished off with a pleasant meal at an Italian restaurant - who could ask for more!
Next time I'll take an Olympus Mju or an Olympus XA!
"It'll be fun" they said - I made the mistake of choosing my Kiev 88 for this round - 2.5kg of Soviet engineering. To be honest I picked it up for a song a few years ago complete with a 30mm f3.5 Zodiak-8 fisheye lens which was worth more than I paid for the complete outfit. Basically it is a Soviet Zeiss Disatagon copy.
Anyway loaded up a roll of Ilford HP5+ (not my favourite film, I never seem to get the best out of it) as the roll of FP4+ had disappeared from my bag. The word for the day was Crusader cross or cruise liner.
Some images below from the day.
Processed in Ilford Ilfotec-DD-X and scanned in 24bit colour at 3200 dpi. Converted to black and white in Affinity Photo II
Grain wise pretty good for HP5, but muddy images unlike the ones I get from my Zenzas.
Kiev 88, Vega 12b 90mm f2.8 at 1/250s f11.
Kiev 88, Vega 12b 90mm f2.8 @ 1/500s, f11. (Off Fotospiel topic, but quite a nice image)
Kiev 88, Vega 12b 90mm f2.8, @ 1/60s, f8
Kiev 88, Zodiak-8, 30mm, f3.5 @ 1/500s, f11.
The camera and lenses are functional, the film back needs a little attention as it is slipping slightly, I lined up the numbers via the window in the rear of the film back by manual winding.
All finished off with a pleasant meal at an Italian restaurant - who could ask for more!
Next time I'll take an Olympus Mju or an Olympus XA!
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