Somewhere in the world, it's Red Oktober!

[farlymac]

Post your photos here taken only in the month of October using FSU (Former Soviet Union) gear. It could be an FSU lens on your digicam, or your FSU camera with a lens made in the formerly free world. Or go FSU all the way!

Don't want your photos taken last month because you're too freaking busy to shoot any this month, but they can be from last October, or any October before then just in case you got rid of your FSU gear but still pine for the good old days. Just make it known when they were taken, and with what gear.

And if you're on Flickr, you can post them at https://www.flickr.com/groups/octfsu/

PF

 

[Huss]

Nice! Time to bust out Komrad Pinky aka my Kiev 4k

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Got too many non-FSU cameras loaded with film at the moment. But once those are done I'll have a go at Red October. FED-NKVD, Zorki I, Zorki I, Zorki 4K, Kiev-88 or the Agat 18K ....choices choices, comrades!

 

[Huss]

These two are loaded for bear... (ok loaded for pics of cats, squirrels, back of peeps' heads at starbux - ya know, street photography)

Fed 2



White Russian

 

[Gerry M]

Industar 61L 55/2.8
R2A
FP4+

 

[Huss]

Very nice Gerry. Dig the strong contrasts.

 

[avidmaster]

Mir with Jupiter 9...

Mir_J-9015 by Michael Kaplan, on Flickr

 

[avidmaster]

All three with a Sony A7 and MIR-1 37mm

Kaplan_OSU_2 by Michael Kaplan, on Flickr

Kaplan_OSU by Michael Kaplan, on Flickr

fire_hydrant by Michael Kaplan, on Flickr

 

[CharlesDAMorgan]

Hopefully, after a mahoosive courier muck up, I should get hold of my stock of Orwo N75, made by the successor company to the Agfa plant in East Germany. Even though it's a bit unreliable I'll put a roll through my East German Werra 3, designed by the Carl Zeiss Jena engineers that were shipped to Kiev as reparations post war, and who set up the production of the Kiev Contax II and III copies. Today is the Republic day of the old East Germany.

Or perhaps get out and test my Zorki 3M. Decisions.

Either way, I'm enjoying only the cameras and the lenses.

 

[AndersG]

These might be a bit boring - Jupiter-9 85mm f/2 on a Canon EOS 30D and the Jupiter is probably too young to be a Soviet manufactured one. However, I only just finished the May 2019 ICCD roll in my FED 2 (4 months late) and I still haven't got any film developed since 2016 or so.

From my balcony. Oct 2019. 1/500 sec, f/5.6 or f/8.

The usual self-portrait. Oct 2019. 1/50 sec, f/2.8 or f/4.

 

[Brambling]

Zorki 3M, J3, tasma type 17 (1987) , D76 1+3, 16*C, 27 min

 

[Brambling]

Zorki 3M, J3, tasma type 17 (1987) , D76 1+3, 16*C, 27 min
yesterday scanned footage from Sunday

 

[Larry Cloetta]

Iskra Ilford FP4+ in DDX 1+4

 

[Huss]

Nice one Larry!

 

[Larry Cloetta]

Nice one Larry!

Thanks, Huss.

 

[Larry Cloetta]

Bump. Where's all the Ruskies?
This one from yesterday.


Titled: "Too darn early for this nonsense", but it's the same every year here.
Iskra Fp4+ in DDX 1+4

 

[css9450]

Oh rats, I decided to show my LTM Canon some love so I loaded it with film last night.... Guess I'll have to do the same for my Zorki.


Look forward to seeing some results by, oh, February or so. I've been too busy.

 

[Gerry M]

Industar 61L 55/2.8
R2A
FP4+
D76

 

[Huss]

Bump. Where's all the Ruskies?
This one from yesterday.


Titled: "Too darn early for this nonsense", but it's the same every year here.
Iskra Fp4+ in DDX 1+4

Very nice! Been shooting my Fed2 and White Russian but will not have film back until next week. Sure I could ‘cheat’ and put a Soviet lens on one of my digicams but where’s the fun in that?

 

[Larry Cloetta]

Very nice! Been shooting my Fed2 and White Russian but will not have film back until next week. Sure I could ‘cheat’ and put a Soviet lens on one of my digicams but where’s the fun in that?

Thanks, Huss. Where is the fun in that, indeed.

This Iskra is new to me, and these were from the first roll I have run through it. Impressed enough to call it a keeper. Smooth focus, pretty clear viewfinder, pocketable in a huge pocket of a large coat, advisedly putting a grapefruit in the contralateral pocket so as not to appear unsteady to onlookers, and sharp enough even with my haphazard technique.
There were some light stripes evenly laid out along the edge of all the negatives, which ruined most of the frames. The dark areas resulting from these are still there on the scans I posted, but the composition hides it on most of these. Ah well, I thought, new camera, new problems. Since the stripe was light on the negs and dark on the positives, that was a puzzler that I, invoking the concept of anti-matter, put down to a light leak involving anti-light. Best I could come up with. Spent last night liquid electrical taping all the known, and infamous, Iskra light leak spots and put another roll in it.
Kept looking at the negatives trying to decipher what the problem with the camera might be, which allowed it to leak anti-light.
Finally realized I had not put enough developer in the tank to completely cover the 120 film. Because idiot.
Anyway, here's another.


Snowfall
Iskra FP4+ in DDX 1+4