Camera Talk

That's...impressive.

Four Lenses and an F by P F McFarland, on Flickr

PF

Aaaahhh........Sigh. I have the F and an earlier 50/1.4 but that's all.......

This little gem is only 20mm high.

Little GEM!

Zorki-3 with Jupiter-8 and Jupiter-12

What’s not to like about this camera? Oh yeah, no flash sync. But hey, I hardly use a flash anymore. It came with the Jupiter-8 2/50, and Jupiter-12 2.8/35. The rangefinder needs adjustment, but the lenses look fine, and everything else on the camera works as designed.


Zorki-3 1954 Soviet Rangefinder by P F McFarland, on Flickr


The Industar-22 makes it a pocket camera, but it had better be a big pocket, what with the extra bulk of the body and combined range/viewfinder. This is not your grandfathers Barnack Leica clone anymore.


Zorki-3 1954 Soviet Rangefinder 2 by P F McFarland, on Flickr



Zorki-3 1954 Soviet Rangefinder 3 by P F McFarland, on Flickr


Everyone should have a Zorki lens cap.


Zorki-3 1954 Soviet Rangefinder 4 by P F McFarland, on Flickr


I’ll be using the lenses on my Z-6 until I can get the Z-3 rangefinder aligned.

PF

What's not to love.

That's a nice collection.

I liked the Zeiss Ikon Ikonette so much that at one time I had about a dozen of them. I'm currently down to five.

Saw this at the Samsung place in NYC: It had nice shelf presence, but all of its controls were frozen, and I couldn't see anything through the viewfinder. It must have been "for display only."

PF