Should I or shouldn't I?

[taffer]

Welcome to the forum PC, I browsed through your pictures and read your posts regarding the Iskra on that other forum 🙂 That door in Prague is one of my all time favorites.

I think you're right, an Ukranian seller and photographer told me the Iskra was a professional oriented camera in the FSU, that may explain why so many of them are found in so sad condition...

I got an Iskra myself from eB@y, looked to be very good and with the proper film counter mechanism, unfortunately the seller sent me the wrong camera :bang: Returned it and got a full refund and with time the Iskra idea vanished.

I remember liking the finder a lot though, but even the whole film chamber was souped in WD40 which was leaking from the lens assembly... 😱

 

[wlewisiii]

Finally had a chance to get some shots from it scanned. Most were test exposures around the neighborhood and nothing special. This one was somewhat interesting though.

The Iskra handles well and certainly will force me to have to shoot up to it. I think this one is going to be the one I always have with me, though probably with bw film so that I can develope it myself.

Fun!

William

 

[wlewisiii]

Yoikes that's bigger than I thought! Time to go futz with the scanner...

William