Love the Zorki cameras! I have couple of different models. Easy to repair and very affordable cameras. Shoot smooth when CLA'ed. Real joy to use. For a real cheap photography order Fomapan 100 in 30.5m roll (about 50$ for 17-18 rolls 36exp.), find recipe and make developer by yourself (d76 -easy to make and works great with Fomapan - develop cost -abut 30cents per roll).
My experience with Soviet cameras was quite good so far - among a Kiev-4A, two Fed 2s, two Fed-3s, one Fed-5 and one Zorki-C, only one Fed-3 developed a weird frame skipping issue after a few months, the rest just worked fine. The Kiev-4A had issues with the slowest speeds before I gave it a bit of service but that's hardly unique to Soviet cameras. I also have a Kiev-60 and a Zorki-10, working perfectly. Among them the Fed-2 with collapsible Industar-22 is my favourite, even among other cameras that are objectively better. I just love its look and feel, to me it's the perfect compromise of a cheap Barnack style body that still had the convenience of combined rangefinder/viewfinder and wide rangefinder base. The Kiev-4A also is great, at least my early one is very close to the build quality of an OG Contax II although later models are said to have been made worse.
I picked up a Zorki 4 off FB Marketplace - it breaks my heart, because I've taken a couple nice photos with it, I like the old lens, and its fun to carry around. But the curtain sticks on the slow speeds, and the flim advance stops working halfway through each roll - common problems, as I'm told.
I inherited what is probably the mintiest, least used FED 5c on earth, and boy let me tell you, they were never good. Its probably had less than 5 rolls shot through it in its entire life and it already feels like it wants to fall apart
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I have a Fed 5b and Kiev 60, two of my fav cameras, work beautifully. And the industar 61 lens on the Fed is so sharp.
Love the Zorki cameras! I have couple of different models. Easy to repair and very affordable cameras. Shoot smooth when CLA'ed. Real joy to use. For a real cheap photography order Fomapan 100 in 30.5m roll (about 50$ for 17-18 rolls 36exp.), find recipe and make developer by yourself (d76 -easy to make and works great with Fomapan - develop cost -abut 30cents per roll).
My experience with Soviet cameras was quite good so far - among a Kiev-4A, two Fed 2s, two Fed-3s, one Fed-5 and one Zorki-C, only one Fed-3 developed a weird frame skipping issue after a few months, the rest just worked fine. The Kiev-4A had issues with the slowest speeds before I gave it a bit of service but that's hardly unique to Soviet cameras. I also have a Kiev-60 and a Zorki-10, working perfectly.
Among them the Fed-2 with collapsible Industar-22 is my favourite, even among other cameras that are objectively better. I just love its look and feel, to me it's the perfect compromise of a cheap Barnack style body that still had the convenience of combined rangefinder/viewfinder and wide rangefinder base. The Kiev-4A also is great, at least my early one is very close to the build quality of an OG Contax II although later models are said to have been made worse.
My day was 94 degrees shot with a 20mm Nikkor Tilt and shift lens just to make taken a picture longer I feel your pain
95 degrees here today and I'm cooking. Send over those 20mm shots though when you get them developed!
I picked up a Zorki 4 off FB Marketplace - it breaks my heart, because I've taken a couple nice photos with it, I like the old lens, and its fun to carry around. But the curtain sticks on the slow speeds, and the flim advance stops working halfway through each roll - common problems, as I'm told.
I inherited what is probably the mintiest, least used FED 5c on earth, and boy let me tell you, they were never good. Its probably had less than 5 rolls shot through it in its entire life and it already feels like it wants to fall apart