Cosmorex SE Camera Test
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2016 12:30 pm
This chrome bodied export version of the Zenit-E (only the name was changed) looks good. But the Auto Cosmogon 2/58 (renamed Helios-44M 2/58) that came on it has a bad aperture control, so I swapped it out with the one from my Zenit TTL. Everything else on it works, even the selenium meter, though it’s a couple of stops off. And no light leaks!
But the proof is in the pudding, as they say, and it showed up in the uneven exposures. Shutter speeds just were not consistent, and this is bad for making panoramic shots.
I had originally planned on shooting this camera for the Red Oktober group on Flickr, but the film I had in it then came off the take-up spool, and I likely only got a couple of exposures on it. That was my fault for not trimming the leader on a reloaded canister I got from a friend. By the time I got around to pulling the film out, it was November.
I’m not going to mess with trying to get the shutter speeds corrected. It will look good though sitting with the black TTL on a shelf.
The Kodak BW400CN does not take kindly to over or under exposure.

Idle Mower by P F McFarland, on Flickr
Banding is left over evidence of uneven exposures in the images used in this stitch.

Hullett Road Farm by P F McFarland, on Flickr
The 8 images used for the above panorama. All f16 @ 1/500.

Exposure Variance by P F McFarland, on Flickr
See the other five images at https://flic.kr/s/aHskNqSikE
PF
And see the camera in the "Any day of the week camera porn" forum.
But the proof is in the pudding, as they say, and it showed up in the uneven exposures. Shutter speeds just were not consistent, and this is bad for making panoramic shots.
I had originally planned on shooting this camera for the Red Oktober group on Flickr, but the film I had in it then came off the take-up spool, and I likely only got a couple of exposures on it. That was my fault for not trimming the leader on a reloaded canister I got from a friend. By the time I got around to pulling the film out, it was November.
I’m not going to mess with trying to get the shutter speeds corrected. It will look good though sitting with the black TTL on a shelf.
The Kodak BW400CN does not take kindly to over or under exposure.

Idle Mower by P F McFarland, on Flickr
Banding is left over evidence of uneven exposures in the images used in this stitch.

Hullett Road Farm by P F McFarland, on Flickr
The 8 images used for the above panorama. All f16 @ 1/500.

Exposure Variance by P F McFarland, on Flickr
See the other five images at https://flic.kr/s/aHskNqSikE
PF
And see the camera in the "Any day of the week camera porn" forum.