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Hi everyone,

I am joining with an interest in learning more about film photography, developing and printing. I have already learned a lot just reading and posting a few questions/problems and getting generous feedback.

I have taken to rangefinder cameras, especially a Barnack iiic, an M4, and soviet Kiev 4a, and Fed 2d. I am looking forward to shooting with a Mir that I am awaiting delivery of. I also have a Pentax 67ii which had been my father and is the only (regrettably) of his film cameras that I kept when he passed away.

We have a community darkroom here in Cleveland, which got me started developing and printing. I set up my own darkroom in my condominium unit with a Craigslist Beseler 23c. I use a spare bedroom as the dry room and the only bathroom as the wetroom, breaking it down and setting it up each session.

I have been learning from Ansel Adams' books, and am currently studying and trying his suggestions of film testing, albeit without a densitometer.

I am glad to have discovered this website and the forums and the generous and encouraging members that animate it!

the picture below was taken on the M4 with a 7artisans 28mm lens, 1/30s, f/2.0, Kentmere 400, developed in Cinestill Monobath DF96.
 

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Hello neighbor. Heck of a winter this year huh? Be nice to get out and shoot again soon.
 
Nice photo, welcome to Photrio, from the city at the far end of your lake. I also have a Kiev 4
 
Nice photo, welcome to Photrio, from the city at the far end of your lake. I also have a Kiev 4
Thank you. I am guessing you are in Buffalo, then? What do you like most about the Kiev 4?
 
Welcome to Photrio!
 
Thank you. I am guessing you are in Buffalo, then? What do you like most about the Kiev 4?

Yep! Niagara Falls. I like the sharp Jupiter-8 lens, the fast focusing with the rangefinder, and its style, based off the German Contax, is beautiful and classic. Mine has been shooting for 15 years without a problem, I also bought the 135mm lens for it and you can frame using the rangefinder patch size.
 
Yep! Niagara Falls. I like the sharp Jupiter-8 lens, the fast focusing with the rangefinder, and its style, based off the German Contax, is beautiful and classic. Mine has been shooting for 15 years without a problem, I also bought the 135mm lens for it and you can frame using the rangefinder patch size.

Sloooowly I turn...step by step...inch by inch...
 
Welcome! When I started, my darkroom was the corner of the kitchen in my little apartment in Japan. Black plastic bin bags and duct tape! Would have done Red Green proud! (Canadian reference... look it up).
 
Welcome! When I started, my darkroom was the corner of the kitchen in my little apartment in Japan. Black plastic bin bags and duct tape! Would have done Red Green proud! (Canadian reference... look it up).

"If the women don't find you handsome, at least let them find you handy!"

😊 👍
 
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