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For this week's featured camera review, let's turn to a curious Russian camera that is commonly spotted in second-hand stores, flea markets, and vintage camera stores. Find out what our featured snapshooter has to say about the 1960s classic, the Zenit E, after the jump!
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The Zenit E is a 1960s survivor; short on features, but solid and tough in a way only Russian cameras can be. Cheap, cheerful, and made in the millions, it's an often-overlooked camera deserving a re-appraisal. Quantity has a quality of its own, after all.
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A love story between a Malaysian student and a lovely Russian. I know you're curious, so why don't you go ahead and read about it after the jump!
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"Man with a Movie Camera" is an experimental, silent documentary film. It's experimental in that its director, Dziga Vertov, uses almost all the cinematic techniques in the book, ranging from double exposure to footage played backwards! It's a documentary as it shows urban life in various Soviet cities, and contains no actors! What a historical gem!
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Our big international company - students and aspirants from 9 countries - have found an excellent restaurant in Moscow, with traditional Russian (precisely, Soviet) cooking; it's named Petrovich.
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Perhaps it's a bit strange to visit a cemetery on a holiday, but after two days of busy Kiev, a day trip to Chernobyl and Pripyat, and lots of enthusiastic people who kept offering us vodka, s0y and I needed some silence. And this monumental cemetery gave us exactly what we needed, and more.
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Ever since bought, the Lubitel 166B has been a reliable and serious friend and companion. I consider it the Anti-Holga, or even the Anti-Diana -- not in a bad way of course. But it's just everything those cameras are not -- a serious camera for people who like to have full control of their shots.
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While the three Russian scooters Lomography has put up for grabs for some winning Conception Day couples sport more modern looks and features, it definitely is worth learning about their early counterparts, don't you think? Read about the vintage Vyatka, the Vespa's Russian "twin" after the jump!
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For this month's feature article from PhotoTuts+, we go into the nitty gritty of the vintage cameras from Russia and the Former Soviet Union!
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Works by
Josef Koudelka are currently on display at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. But be quick or you’ll miss it!
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MoMA presents the first American Museum presentation dedicated entirely to Boris Mikhailov’s photographic series Case History.
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Tasma Photo 64 - one of the most popular films in the Soviet Union. Tasma and Svema factories were almost the sole suppliers of the film on the Soviet market. At the moment, Tasma factory still produces the film, but only highly specialized type of X-ray film and film for aerial photography.
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Slavin, also designated by the National Cultural Monument, was erected in 1960 to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the liberation of Bratislava in the Second World War.
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A famous Brazilian composer, Chico Buarque, wrote that Budapest is yellow. When I was there, I found a grey sky being crushed by three colors: red, white, and green. The Hungarian flag was everywhere: a reminder of how strong people are when they fight together.
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Etyud -- this is a simple for use plastic camera. One of the few plastic 120 type cameras in the USSR of a 60's and 70's. Faded colors, angular body -- the soviet people know with this type of design. But shoot this camera is very nice.
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The magnificent Zenit 12 is a sturdy and reliable 35mm SLR camera with TTL metering system, interchangeable lens (M42 mount), and a reputation of being almost indestructible.
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Communism in Hungary may have ended in 1989, but on the outskirts of Budapest there is a park where you can still feel it. After the fall of communism, citizens of Eastern European cities understandably began destroying the buildings, statues and symbols of the era and regime that had oppressed them since 1949.
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Here's the Iskra, a particularly well made Russian 120 folder from 1960. This may be one of the
best Soviet cameras ever made! It seems to have been based on the Agfa Isolette II.
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Adyghe village is located on the left bank of the Kuban River. It is a quiet place for a sad life. There is no joy, just old Soviet architecture. If you ever find yourself near the area, try to visit it and see for yourself a whole city lost in time.
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I love finding places from the past, in this case from the Soviet past. Although I have not long lived in the Union, but I know and feel the state of such places, to which the spirit of "perestroika" has not yet arrived. One of them, I visited this week: I beg to love and favor rubles (otherwise they will be shut down completely) - a boarding house "Forest town".
