You're unbeatable - Zorki Nostalgia

[lushd]

Comrade - you have allowed your enthusiasm to cloud your judgement. Do you not recall that the committee switched to triple accounting and this thread now has over 3000 viewings? You are obliged to re-educate yourself in Zorki nostalgia by reading the attached thoroughly. (From a book published by TOE called "New horizons in sight and sound").

 

[Jocko]

Look Comrades! That Lady has a mink coat and a Zenit E! Such abundance is only possible under socialism!

On a darker note, one can't help but notice they miss-captioned the Kievs - perhaps after a visit from Comrade Stolichnaya? We must write to Mr Khruschev at once.

Comradely regards, Ian

 

[clarence]

It's not just camera porn, nor vintage camera porn. It's proletariat-safe vintage camera vintage porn.

Re: Mink coat. One is always allowed to have a small dose of fantasy, even in Communist Utopia

Clarence

 

[lushd]

Comrades - for fairness to the comrades. the book was produced in the UK so I think the nice lady in the coat is probably one of the TOE staff. The swopped captions are down to British Pale Ale at lunchtime, I suspect.

 

[ZorkiFan]

For anyone who weren't familier with TOE, (I wasn't) here is a page to tell who they were.

http://cameras.alfredklomp.com/toe/

Pretty cool, I missed out, possibly because I live in the U.S.

I was into SLR's back in the day, I smashed a nice Rolleiflex, because I hated the old "junker". Funny how age changes perspective.

 

[lushd]

Translation

Translation

Can any of our Russian speakers help here please? This is the plastic card that came in the case of my Zorki 1. I have always wondered what it said.

 

[andy_v]

Can any of our Russian speakers help here please? This is the plastic card that came in the case of my Zorki 1. I have always wondered what it said.

"To be processed before October (10 = roman X) 1975. Development time - 8 min."

 

[lushd]

Thank you Andy. It makes me wonder what was on that film.

 

[andy_v]

Sweet time! I was a teenager, studied at school, took pictures of my girlfriends with Smena and Zenit 3m and believed in socialism 😀 😀