Horizont, again
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2026 10:22 pm
My most prized Russian possession is this Horizont (probably “Gorizont’ from the Cyrillic). It took months and a lot of trouble to get it through Customs, back when buying through the Internet and receiving a package from abroad was looked upon with suspicion here. Now it is of course trivial.
I saw that my previous roll with this camera was 12 years ago, so maybe a new try was in order. In the previous week we had Heritage Weekend, and I caught a new exhibition of classic cars for a short test roll. Light drizzle, with cars both outside and inside, and lots of visitors.
Light outside was enough for f/8; the 28mm lens is sharp enough at that aperture.
The interior of this Rolls was something to behold!
Inside the building were the really classy items. Light was not too much for FP4+, but 1/30 in f/2.8 worked. However at that aperture, fixed focus means that sharpness (more or less) starts at about 16 ft.
I was happy to see that no banding is visible, a problem that my technician fixed many years ago. And fortunately no fingers appeared in the pictures, something that often happens with the 120 degrees field of view.
This place deserves further visits, probably with a MF camera loaded with HP5+ to better handle the interior shots. Let’s see.
I saw that my previous roll with this camera was 12 years ago, so maybe a new try was in order. In the previous week we had Heritage Weekend, and I caught a new exhibition of classic cars for a short test roll. Light drizzle, with cars both outside and inside, and lots of visitors.
Light outside was enough for f/8; the 28mm lens is sharp enough at that aperture.
The interior of this Rolls was something to behold!
Inside the building were the really classy items. Light was not too much for FP4+, but 1/30 in f/2.8 worked. However at that aperture, fixed focus means that sharpness (more or less) starts at about 16 ft.
I was happy to see that no banding is visible, a problem that my technician fixed many years ago. And fortunately no fingers appeared in the pictures, something that often happens with the 120 degrees field of view.
This place deserves further visits, probably with a MF camera loaded with HP5+ to better handle the interior shots. Let’s see.