bgb
Well-known
As it's the middle of the month I guess it's time to finish uploading images and thinking about which image you would like to see win.
tyrone.s
Well-known
A couple of shots from a recently acquired Zenit B. Square cropped because the Helios 44 had severe fungus (not mentioned) rendering 1/3rd of the frame unusable. I was lucky to get anything as the shutter was also capping. Some DIY repairs have ensured that the frame winder now winds whilst the shutter remains unmoving ... When will I learn ... 
Contrast and resolution lovers need not reply
Zenit B Helios 44 by BigDragon, on Flickr
Zenit B Helios 44 by BigDragon, on Flickr
Contrast and resolution lovers need not reply
Zenit B Helios 44 by BigDragon, on Flickr
Zenit B Helios 44 by BigDragon, on Flickr
Joao
Negativistic forever
Unable to upload...
Unable to upload...
Unfortunately I was unable to upload five photos (three with the Iskras, two with thev FED-50). I used to do it from Phtobucket but now it allows me to upload only small thumnails.... Flickr does not work (I get some small symbols instead of the photos) and Ipernity allows only GIF files. Even from the RFF Gallery all I can get are the links:
Iskra, Fomapan 100
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/gallery/7702/med_U7702I1434665298.SEQ.4.jpg
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/gallery/7702/med_U7702I1434665298.SEQ.3.jpg
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/gallery/7702/med_U7702I1434665298.SEQ.2.jpg
FED-50, Agfa Vista
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/gallery/7702/med_U7702I1434665297.SEQ.1.jpg
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/gallery/7702/med_U7702I1434665297.SEQ.0.jpg
Copying and pasting the links on the line that shows up after clicking the icin with a small landscape does nor work either, the preview shows only the links...
Any tip to get a working link that I can use to upload the photos ?
Regards
João
PS: Photoibucketr used tom work (slowly) until some weeks ago...
Unable to upload...
Unfortunately I was unable to upload five photos (three with the Iskras, two with thev FED-50). I used to do it from Phtobucket but now it allows me to upload only small thumnails.... Flickr does not work (I get some small symbols instead of the photos) and Ipernity allows only GIF files. Even from the RFF Gallery all I can get are the links:
Iskra, Fomapan 100
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/gallery/7702/med_U7702I1434665298.SEQ.4.jpg
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/gallery/7702/med_U7702I1434665298.SEQ.3.jpg
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/gallery/7702/med_U7702I1434665298.SEQ.2.jpg
FED-50, Agfa Vista
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/gallery/7702/med_U7702I1434665297.SEQ.1.jpg
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/gallery/7702/med_U7702I1434665297.SEQ.0.jpg
Copying and pasting the links on the line that shows up after clicking the icin with a small landscape does nor work either, the preview shows only the links...
Any tip to get a working link that I can use to upload the photos ?
Regards
João
PS: Photoibucketr used tom work (slowly) until some weeks ago...
lynnb
Veteran
tyrone.s
Well-known
It can be a fiddle ... To copy from Flickr: go to the photo you want, select the share 'arrow' and select the BB Code option. Copy that code and paste it into the RFF message box. You don't need to do anything else for your photo to then appear. You don't need to use any of the RFF options for images for this to work. You can check it's worked via the preview post option. Plenty of options. Good luck.
Ron (Netherlands)
Well-known
Sorry my fault I hadn't read the rules..:bang:...I just made the remark since it seems quite some people seem to shuffle East Germany under the FSU
; So I guess we can count in the many Carl Zeiss camera's from former East Germany too.
Ron (Netherlands)
Well-known
Better take the BBCode option, works fine if inserted here, since in that case you don't need to use the "insert image button"
Joao
Negativistic forever
Here are my last six photos (my apologies for the late post)
FED-50, Agfa Vista ISO 200
Iskra, Fomapan 200
With a special thanks to Lynn for his clear instructions to upload these pictures to this thread
Joao
FED-50, Agfa Vista ISO 200
Iskra, Fomapan 200
With a special thanks to Lynn for his clear instructions to upload these pictures to this thread
Joao
popavvakum
Member
Late post Bercy: Kiev-4/ Jupiter-8m
Late post Bercy: Kiev-4/ Jupiter-8m
Late post Bercy: Kiev-4/ Jupiter-8m
popavvakum
Member
Late post Grassling: Kiev-4/ Jupiter-8m
Late post Grassling: Kiev-4/ Jupiter-8m
Late post Grassling: Kiev-4/ Jupiter-8m
bgb
Well-known
As it's July tomorrow and it looks like all the entries have been uploaded it's time to decide our favorite.
Which image do you think should win?
Which image do you think should win?
Pherdinand
the snow must go on
wait for meeeeee - i missed this thread till now-
i have a story, i have 2 shots, they are at home now and i am at work but i will contribute in the evening - it's still June - is it okay?
i have a story, i have 2 shots, they are at home now and i am at work but i will contribute in the evening - it's still June - is it okay?
bgb
Well-known
Of course we will wait for you
Pherdinand
the snow must go on
so here i am.
Some eight years ago, at the peak of my RFF activity, i was working in a physics research lab in the north of the Netherlands. And that's where i've met this cute girl from Kiev, Ukraine.
Several years passed till we got to the level of meeting each others' parents. Which was always a bit awkward, not speaking each others' mother tongue (literally...she didn't speak what my parents spoke, i didn't speak what her parents spoke... well in some cases things are automatically easier and safer this way)
Anyway. I could never really exchange proper words with her father, going through a translator is just not the same (i still regret this).
Despite of this (or maybe due to this ), apparently her father still appreciated me a lot, more than any of her exes.There was one good reason for that- the overlap of our professional background and job.
He was working at Kiev Arsenal - yes, at the mega factory where they also made cameras and lenses - at the optics coating research as a scientist-technician. So he thought, if the guy is a physicist, he's good enough for his daughter.
A few years passed; we got engaged, we moved down south to Eindhoven, everybody got older- two years ago it turned out, he has cancer. We visited him in the summer, we sas already in not a very good shape, obviously not working anymore. At some point he told his wife to go look for a brown box in the closet. And guess what, there was this big leather case with a shiny new looking 6x6 kiev88 in it, with some extra back, metered finder, and the standard lens. He wanted to give it to me- turns out, he knew that i am still shooting film.
Of course i happily accepted it and upon closer examination it turns out, one of the film backs has a film in it. He thought it must be in there since the mid eighties.
I brought the camera back to the Netherlands and put it on a shelf. I just didn't get there to use it for months and months.
In the meanwhile, life went on, we got married, and he passed away.
Recently i realised the film is still in there, so i've shot the remaining frames with the Kiev - turns out only the first two were used up.
I dev'ed the film in Diafine, my trusty always-reliable juice, and here's the result- my FSU contribution.
The first shot is what he made from their apartment window- indeed in the mid eighties, based on my wife's recollection of the trees and scenery. The second frame was alas, blank. So no romantic story here of finding back old family members on the pictures.
The second shot i upload is in our garden.
The film presents serious emulsion defects, i guess due to the years that passed, though that exposed undeveloped first shot resisted the decades pretty well.
EDIT: Obviously, the first shot doesn't enter the contest since i did not shoot it and it's not from May 2015
But i thought to share it anyway.
The 2nd one qualifies.
Some eight years ago, at the peak of my RFF activity, i was working in a physics research lab in the north of the Netherlands. And that's where i've met this cute girl from Kiev, Ukraine.
Several years passed till we got to the level of meeting each others' parents. Which was always a bit awkward, not speaking each others' mother tongue (literally...she didn't speak what my parents spoke, i didn't speak what her parents spoke... well in some cases things are automatically easier and safer this way
)Anyway. I could never really exchange proper words with her father, going through a translator is just not the same (i still regret this).
Despite of this (or maybe due to this
), apparently her father still appreciated me a lot, more than any of her exes.There was one good reason for that- the overlap of our professional background and job. He was working at Kiev Arsenal - yes, at the mega factory where they also made cameras and lenses - at the optics coating research as a scientist-technician. So he thought, if the guy is a physicist, he's good enough for his daughter.
A few years passed; we got engaged, we moved down south to Eindhoven, everybody got older- two years ago it turned out, he has cancer. We visited him in the summer, we sas already in not a very good shape, obviously not working anymore. At some point he told his wife to go look for a brown box in the closet. And guess what, there was this big leather case with a shiny new looking 6x6 kiev88 in it, with some extra back, metered finder, and the standard lens. He wanted to give it to me- turns out, he knew that i am still shooting film.
Of course i happily accepted it and upon closer examination it turns out, one of the film backs has a film in it. He thought it must be in there since the mid eighties.
I brought the camera back to the Netherlands and put it on a shelf. I just didn't get there to use it for months and months.
In the meanwhile, life went on, we got married, and he passed away.
Recently i realised the film is still in there, so i've shot the remaining frames with the Kiev - turns out only the first two were used up.
I dev'ed the film in Diafine, my trusty always-reliable juice, and here's the result- my FSU contribution.
The first shot is what he made from their apartment window- indeed in the mid eighties, based on my wife's recollection of the trees and scenery. The second frame was alas, blank. So no romantic story here of finding back old family members on the pictures.
The second shot i upload is in our garden.
The film presents serious emulsion defects, i guess due to the years that passed, though that exposed undeveloped first shot resisted the decades pretty well.
EDIT: Obviously, the first shot doesn't enter the contest since i did not shoot it and it's not from May 2015
But i thought to share it anyway.
The 2nd one qualifies.
oftheherd
Veteran
so here i am.
Some eight years ago, at the peak of my RFF activity, i was working in a physics research lab in the north of the Netherlands. And that's where i've met this cute girl from Kiev, Ukraine.
Several years passed till we got to the level of meeting each others' parents. Which was always a bit awkward, not speaking each others' mother tongue (literally...she didn't speak what my parents spoke, i didn't speak what her parents spoke... well in some cases things are automatically easier and safer this way
Anyway. I could never really exchange proper words with her father, going through a translator is just not the same (i still regret this).
Despite of this (or maybe due to this
He was working at Kiev Arsenal - yes, at the mega factory where they also made cameras and lenses - at the optics coating research as a scientist-technician. So he thought, if the guy is a physicist, he's good enough for his daughter.
A few years passed; we got engaged, we moved down south to Eindhoven, everybody got older- two years ago it turned out, he has cancer. We visited him in the summer, we sas already in not a very good shape, obviously not working anymore. At some point he told his wife to go look for a brown box in the closet. And guess what, there was this big leather case with a shiny new looking 6x6 kiev88 in it, with some extra back, metered finder, and the standard lens. He wanted to give it to me- turns out, he knew that i am still shooting film.
Of course i happily accepted it and upon closer examination it turns out, one of the film backs has a film in it. He thought it must be in there since the mid eighties.
I brought the camera back to the Netherlands and put it on a shelf. I just didn't get there to use it for months and months.
In the meanwhile, life went on, we got married, and he passed away.
Recently i realised the film is still in there, so i've shot the remaining frames with the Kiev - turns out only the first two were used up.
I dev'ed the film in Diafine, my trusty always-reliable juice, and here's the result- my FSU contribution.
The first shot is what he made from their apartment window- indeed in the mid eighties, based on my wife's recollection of the trees and scenery. The second frame was alas, blank. So no romantic story here of finding back old family members on the pictures.
The second shot i upload is in our garden.
The film presents serious emulsion defects, i guess due to the years that passed, though that exposed undeveloped first shot resisted the decades pretty well.
EDIT: Obviously, the first shot doesn't enter the contest since i did not shoot it and it's not from May 2015
But i thought to share it anyway.
The 2nd one qualifies.
Kind of a long read, but I am glad I did. Quite poignant. Seems like your father-in-law must have been quite a gentleman to know. His photo has become sort of a time machine even if there aren't any of family. Working where he did, I would guess the camera is a fine specimen as well.
Thanks for the story and shot.