And I’ve been up to my idiot eyeballs in a lot of changes here at the shop…
but I’m hoping I’ve got things turned in something like the right direction again. (said the same thing last year about this time. I know. It’s been … not fun. I’m a little slow sometimes.)
Anyway yes, CommieCam arrived and works, and it’s kind of fun and a curiosity and nobody knows what the heck it is. So, being me, of course I had to break down and buy another lens, just … Yupiter-8, Russian copy of a Zeiss 50mm Sonnar, and I’m going out with it later this week.
This is with the Helios-103 lens that came with the Kiev. (FP-4, 1/15, f2, available dark at a coffee shop)
It’s not at all a BAD lens and I’d probably be quite happy with it, but by repute the prewar Sonnars were/are a whole other level of portrait lens, and so I have to try one. By the by both the new lens and the original camera came from Yuri at Fedka who’s got an excellent reputation, which my experience would seem to bear out.
More pix later. Or sooner. I’ve a couple more I’ll possibly put up tonight or tomorrow depending…
As soon as it stops raining, let’s hit the streets.