My Week | Starting A Darkroom | Zenit E
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ส.ค. 2018
- This week I buy an entire high school darkroom setup and a bunch of old cameras. Among the cameras is the Zenit E, an old Soviet 35mm SLR. We take a look at it up close and then head out with a roll of Ilford Delta 400 film to see if it still works.
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My first camera was a Zenith C in 1958 when I was 13. It has a 50mm Industar 3.5 lens. I still have that camera and lens.
I use a Zenith E still with the Helios 44-2 58mm f2 lens and a Helios 135 mm 2.8 lens.
I love soviet cameras and have a 1981 Kiev 6c with a 90mm 2.8 lens which is a medium format slr and takes 12 on 120 Roll film.
Keep up the good work. Love from the UK. Stay safe.
My first 35mm camera was a Zenit E .. built like a tank, and I spent my first five years shooting with the body, 50mm, 28mm and 135mm primes ( Kodachrome 25 / 64 and Ilford HP5 were my stock films) ... Great fun, and some of my favourite images were taken on it, and then came the gorgeous Pentax MX. Great video as always.
Try the Helios lens adapted on digital .... it's good fun.
Yea its a simple but effective camera, thanks for watching John.
Going from "I’m not interested in a darkroom." to "I’ve just got 10 enlargers and a school's entire darkroom.” is doing 180 turns like a spinning top. Welcome to the dark side, I am rubbish in the darkroom but f you enjoy it half as much as I do it will love it. I admit that I find it sad when I hear of schools closing their darkrooms, but they have a duty to teach what is current and the future.
My favourite camera is one of my of my FSUs, my Zorki 4K, though I just can’t form an attachment at all to my other my Practika, even though the latter has amazing glass. But that might be East German not FSU, I’m not sure.
Another great video, and I’m not in the least surprised that you are a man who will keep an open mind.
Praktica was made in the GDR, not the Soviet Union. I have an LTL3 with a 50mm Tessar, and it may be clunky and loud, and not that refined, but it's reliable enough, and takes really nice images!
nusproizvodjac I thought it might have East German. I can’t fault the camera, it just doesn’t have the same impact on me as the Zorki does.
OKuusava I have the Epson v800, as I don’t have either 120 or colour enlargers I see the scanner as a necessary evil. My brother first took me into his darkroom in 1974 and I thought it was a magical place, now 44 years later I still think it’s magical maybe even more so.
@@OKuusava dude the way to do it is scan a 5x7 or 8x10 print, any printer can handle that well enough. I don't get people trying to scan their negatives then blaming their consumer scanner for being sub par lol
Cheers from the Netherlands! Keep up the great video's! You keep inspiring me mate!
Thanks PimK
wonderfull pictures! Great photographer!
My first 35mm SLR was a Zenit TTL, that had 'through the lens' or TTL metering, it was about £35.00 in 1980 in England, a Zenit E was about £29.00. The Helios lens was the same as yours here with a screwthread and optically very capable. A Pentax or Canon was £100+ and beyond my budget by far. You could buy an east German 'Practika' also, maybe £45 with the same screw in lens fitting. I found the Zenit to be the better camera
The whole lot !!!! You rock
I saw a Zenit V and I instantly clicked.
Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhh. Good stuff
i love zenit cameras!!
Love the images you captured with this camera. Thanks for sharing
Your welcome Tony thanks very much mate
My first ever camera was a zenit 11 , still have it ha . Nice video.
Wow that's a lucky find! Congrats
I really love watching your videos! Keep it up ☺️
Thanks Benjamin
Sounds like it was meant to be Paul. How cool! Congrats on the set up and the gear you were able to pick up. I think your channel has really found a niche and that’s fantastic. Cheers buddy.
Hey man, another cool video, great editing, and beautiful photos
Thanks so much
My first 35mm camera was a "Kalimar" branded Zenit B (like the Zenit E without a meter) which I got in 1973. Such a simple camera, and using it with a handheld light meter required me to really learn about light and exposure. I shot with it until the shutter failed after five years of steady shooting. I still have thousands of negatives and transparencies that I made using that camera, plus I still have the broken camera. I moved on to a Nikon F2 when the Zenit quit, but I still have fond memories of shooting with that camera.
Nice images from the Zenit......
Thanks
You should research the unique/quirky/creative properties of bokeh achievable with that Helios lens. One of the more usual lenses for producing 'swirly' bokeh on full frame cameras......if that sort of stuff floats your boat.
Yea I did, nice lens, would love to do some portrait work with it.
What a find, some of those enlargers have multigrade heads on them. Ilford multigrade paper was/is great, variable contrast through the use of filters or an enlarger head. Zenith E, first "serious" camera I bought, that and a book on photography back in 1976, never looked back. Thanks for this video.
Thanks Andrew, at $20 USD each I could not resist buying all of them. They all all have multigrade heads. Thanks for watching.
It's the photographer that makes the pictures, not the camera. Nice work. Looking forward to seeing the darkroom come together.
It has begun! Thanks
Nice work mate top score on the new gear great selection of shots 👍🏼
Cheers Bud, 2-0 up at half time
Paul C Smith Photographer great start to the season MOT ⚽️😆😎
you found a treasure ,congratulations
Thankyou
Beautiful shots pal, love your channel too! :-)
Thanks Stuart
Interesting camera, and brave step with the dark room! It looks like you’ve just done it with a positive attitude :). Curious to see where this will/might lead. Best of luck, Paul!
Thanks Csaba
Wow, 10 enlargers, nice one Paul. You should start up a community darkroom.
El perfecto.... beautiful pictures I have to say... //fredrik
Thanks dude
Paul I came from the darkroom days and I had said to someone “No way in hell will I ever go back to darkroom work!” No less than a week later someone said to me “Hey Jim we have an entire colour darkroom all brand new, purchased for use on a movie set as a prop. The movie is finished and I’ve been told to toss it. If you want it .. it’s yours!” I have to cut this comment short because I have some prints being rinsed 😀
haha Lol good onya mate
Awesome Paul & looks like that old Russian camera is taking some pretty nice shots their ! .. Looks like Mums car will be out on the street for a while ... Lol !!
Wow, from never doing a darkroom to ten enlargers and all the gear. I’d say you did a 180 and then some Paul. Well done
Thanks Bill
Great stuff. You get fab pics out of a box of old russian engineering. But sooo many enlargers?? Enjoy 😁
Some have to go!
Its very sad that the school feels the needs to sell out. A great loss for the students. However, I'm glad you enjoyed the time with iot and the images are pretty cool.
Yea I agree
It looks like you have enough darkroom equipment to make an old time camera club very happy.;) May I suggest sending out invitations to folk who remember when film photography was king and cameras were strictly manual? I've used various kinds of film cameras from the 1950's onward, from roll film box to a "trailing edge" DSLR. Part of film photography was anticipation, wondering if your activities would result in usable images.
Lol thanks for that
ZENIT E - my love camera! 😍 My photos taken with a camera ZENIT E: www.flickr.com/photos/mtart/albums/72157626256026375
Very nice, love the colour your getting, what film?
To the color most often Fujifilm Xtra 400 or 200 ISO. To the Black and White Kodak BW 400 CN (version on C41 - currently not produced). All films development & scan in lab.
Awesome, will have to get some, love the tones. Fuji film is awesome, Pro 400H is a favorite of mine. Take care
I have some Old Russian Cameras some zenth and a Zorki 4k love the results you get with them. I agree it is the photographer makes the picture the camera is just a tool.
Thanks Katharine
Hey man, down here in sunny Nelson and just stumbled across your channel. Really enjoying it mate! Just picked myself up an Olympus OM-2n off trademe. New to photography, and loving it. Just wondering what you are doing with your enlargers and if you are interested in selling one? Keep up the good work. Following with interest. Scott.
Yep got qa few for sale, thanks for watching!!
Sweet. Where can I find them for sale? Cheers!
I wanna get the print of Bea ( is that how you spell his name) from this episode.
Hey Wishdog yep that's how you spell his name
I subscribed even though I despise you right now lol. So jealous. No plans for a darkroom...have you seen my 9 enlargers and pallet of cameras? FML.
Sorry mate, lifes good down here, tisk tisk
Are the enlargers up for sale?
Yes
How can you bulk roll your own film and yet not own a darkroom!!?? :-D Congratulations, welcome to the club :-) Independent and broke from now on Paul!!! #shootfilmhavenomoney !! :-D
I know another obsession about to begin! Thankyou!!
Paul C Smith Photographer 😂
It just goes to show yet again that it is the photographer, not the camera that makes the picture.
Grazie
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Чудові фото,добра камера.Моєму діду подарували таку (але з Індустаром 50-2) в 1987 ,на неї ж я зняв свою першу плівку 30 років потому.Не ідеальна,звісно,тим паче через стільки років почали нерівномірно ходити шторки і трохи деградував експонометр,але навіть при цьому вона працює,а після обслуговування зможе ще довго працювати
roses are red
violets are blue
the video is in english
comments should be too
I know,I know.But I wanted to let the author know that he has viewers not only from English-speaking countries
Thankyou man, i don't understand what your saying but hopefully its good. Take care and keep watching appreciate your comment whatever language. 🙌
@@PaulCSmithPhotographer Shure its good.I said :'Awersome photos,good camera.My granddad received similar one (but with Industar 50-2) as a gift from colleagues in 1987 and I shot my first roll of film on it 30 years later.Shure,its not perfect,after three decades of work it began to make black stripes on the right of photos and has slightly degraded exposure meter,but it's still working and after little amount of service it will work for years'
I subscribe out of interest as to what you will do with 9 enlargers. Frankly, I'm tiring of that sub-class of YT channel: hiking through the British woodlots. There are so many of them that they now gang together to double-team the over-exposed environments.
Thanks Randall, I'll try not to clone into a Thomas Heaton. Cheers
There doesn't seem to be any sense in the school getting rid of the darkroom gear. Schools / colleges in the UK still use film and printing as part of any photography course.
The head of the photography department barely knew how to turn on a camera, some young girl very nice but totally oblivious to anything related to film photography.
I know I encouraged you for a darkroom, but 9 enlargers ?! Talking about overkill...
In normal circumstances I'd buy off one from you but given I live across the globe that would be too costly. That aside, I hope you know the golden rule to work with all mechanical russian cameras - NEVER EVER change the exposure time before you cock the shutter. Just saying...
All this is your fault!