This series was shot on a walk around the new developments on the Greenwich Peninsula in late April 2021. I had been having an absolute mare of a week, felt like rubbish and wanted to get out of the house but I had been procrastinating, saying to myself that I should take my camera and […]
Author Archives: Michael Elliott
I'm a passionate photographer who took a relatively long break from my digital photography ventures and came back with a vengeance after taking my wife's Fed 4 out for a spin. I subsequently bought her a Bronica ETRS system, and saw the images she made with that, and immediately decided I wanted a Kiev 60, all the Zeiss lenses, then a Fuji GL690, all the lenses, and a Rolleiflex. I got all of them, then an Olympus OM-1 (and, you guessed it - all the lenses). My freezer's bottom drawer has not known food in several months, being crammed with many (mostly discontinued Fuji Provia 400X and Pro 400H) films.
It all began - like I suspect many people's new-found hobbies - as Coronavirus hit in 2020. Having just come back from Japan and straight into lockdown, I started digging through my wife's old film cameras and dug out a Lomo LC-A, a Smena 8-M, a Kiev 4, a Fed 4 and a Lubitel medium format TLR. Needless to say, after running a few test rolls through I found some were more reliable than others, and then the medium format photography bug got me.
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Camera review: The utilitarian Kiev 60
The Kiev 60. It was the camera that got me into medium format film photography, and for better or worse, the one that I love, and the one that frustrates me the most. A Soviet tank of a camera — the T-34 if you will — it’s not one that you want to lug up […]
