I loaded some Kentmere 400 in the Kiev IIa mounted with the Jupiter-12 35mm lens and rode my trike to Old Town. As I was preparing to make some shots of the houses on Old Town Road these bikers rode into the frame.
The Plaza Vieja was jammed full of people in town for the first day of the Balloon Fiesta, so I just drove on through to the corner of the Museum. The current exhibit is an extraordinary opportunity to see works seldom available in Albuquerque, and the message of the show is clearly relevant to our time.
Having got through just a few shots on the roll I took the camera along on our two-day trip to Las Cruces and Mesilla, where we walked around the Plaza on Sunday morning just as the Sunday service was ending at San Albino.
We had coffee in the shop next to the church and I made a few shots around the Plaza as I do on each visit. I shot rather carelessly as it was a roll of 36. However, the advance locked just past 20.
When I developed the film the frames were spaced very narrowly and there was a light leak evident in the margins of a few frames. Those are issues easily fixed, so I'll get to that before using the Kiev IIa again.
2 comments:
You are brave to use a Kiev. Decades ago, I considered buying one at a Beryozka store in Moscow. Back in the 1970,s the Soviets were trying to acquire foreign currency, and they sold cameras and other goods to foreign tourists at low prices but only for foreign currency. But I had Japanese cameras, and the Soviet products were not all that appealing except possibly as a souvenir.
The Soviet and East German cameras sold better in Europe at discount prices than they did in USA. We had access to Japanese and West German products at decent prices, so why bother with the Soviet ones? Now, the Soviet machinery seems to have acquired a certain popularity in USA.
I got the Kiev IIa at a good price when ebay still had a lot of bargains. Igor in Kiev did a cla and fixed the shutter for about forty bucks. I had to put in new seals and lube the advance; it has been a reliable performer.
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