September 2006, City of Lodz, Poland. My bandmate, a bass player of Artrosis and Sacriversum (both bands I play with) asked me for his wedding photo session. I had never before made a real photo session so I was very afraid. It was my first time session and it was a real one and very important for my friend - try imagine the situation when one’s wedding photos are bad. I wanted everything to go right way, so I organised pre photo session 1 week before in the same place, to find the best places and backgrounds. The place was an old park in Poland. On the wedding they we just repeated the best configurations and places. I know that wedding photos I took are not “top of the tops” but eveybody was happy with them, and that was the most important.
Camera: Minolta A1
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This photo I took in summer 2006 during my trip with a team of Motive.ie in Poland during making a program for RTE (Irish Television). I was in a position of TV Fixer. This is a moss on the very old wooden roof of one of the houses on the town square of Kazimierz - a beautiful renaissance town. Sometimes close ups are better than the photo of whole thing (like building, town etc.).
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Published at July 29, 2007
in cameras.
I would like to introduce my cameras to you. Today is one of my first cameras, and the first reflex one. An old Zenit ET.
Zenit ET (Zenith ET) - Made in USSR by KMZ (Krasnogorskiy Mekhanicheskiy Zavod - Krasnogorsk Mechanical Works). Design of the camera is dated for 1965.
Some specifications:
Type: Reflex camera
Lens: replaceable, thread M42, originally mounted Lens HELIOS M44 2/58 Aperture: from 2 to 16
Shutter: focal-plane shutter
Shutter times: from 1/30 to 1/500 plus B
Viewfinder: pentagonal prism.
Self-timer: 7 s.
Exposure-meter: external selenium exposure-meter, placed above the lens.
Frame size: 24×36
My comment: In 1997 my mother bought this camera for me from a Russian or Belarussian woman who was visiting us sometimes for selling some things in the markets and bring goods to USSR. It was my first reflex camera, a real one. I took hundreds of photos using it, especially during my trips to Scotland. The camera was exposed to a hard weather and travel conditions during that trips. Finally its chassis started to leak some light, so some of the pictures had a bright smudges (about 10 from 36 pictures on each film). Later another problems appeared whit the shutter springs. I needed to hit camera with a stone or something to make it work. The camera ended on the shelf in my living room as a part of decoration.
Those specification and my comments are also added to the subpage of my blog.
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