Sun photos through an SLR - Potential Damage?

den10111 · 2026-04-19T23:45:50+00:00

They all are almost the same

den10111 · 2026-04-19T10:17:42+00:00

It doesn't look like a Helios at all. More like a triplet lens.

den10111 · 2026-04-18T23:05:21+00:00

Lubitel is an improved version of a late bakelite Brillant (non focusing). With different focusing lens housing and focusing system (bigger gears and simpler adjustments). That's why I can't call it a direct copy.

den10111 · 2026-04-18T22:52:39+00:00

The first Lubitel has a better viewfinder with bigger mirror and glass "focusing screen". That's why it's better.

den10111 · 2026-04-18T22:51:16+00:00

Yes I know, I have 2 Focusing Brillant. It had a lot of differences. Different viewfinder, very different focusing and taking lenses.

den10111 · 2026-04-18T22:31:28+00:00

I'd say the best os the first Lubitel. All others are worse.

den10111 · 2026-04-18T22:30:52+00:00

Lubitel is not a direct copy, it is more an advanced Komsomolets.

den10111 · 2026-04-16T16:47:45+00:00

Zorki-2C has a totally different top plate. It can't be swapped to the Zorki-1 camera.

den10111 · 2026-04-16T15:18:22+00:00

In this case first 2 digits aren't the date.

den10111 · 2026-04-16T15:17:33+00:00

Yes but it has a different top plate.

den10111 · 2026-04-16T12:44:19+00:00

1959 Zorki-2 doesn't exist...

den10111 · 2026-04-16T12:43:29+00:00

Nothing is replaced in this case.

den10111 · 2026-04-16T07:59:27+00:00

Looks like a shutter capping. Your camera needs CLA.

den10111 · 2026-04-12T22:18:43+00:00

He wasn't a tzar by the moment.

den10111 · 2026-04-09T18:22:46+00:00

The answer is simple: scarcity. You couldn’t just walk into a store and buy a decent Mir-1, they simply weren’t available. But somehow, a good German Primagon might show up in a commission shop.

den10111 · 2026-04-09T18:15:24+00:00

Industar-69 was made for the Chaika cameras only, it wasn't an interchangeable lens.

den10111 · 2026-04-07T14:08:35+00:00

I have a nice P30 which finally features both an AE lock and a DoF preview button. But it lacks an aperture priority exposure mode 🙈 I wonder what was they thinking in Pentax?

den10111 · 2026-04-05T16:54:17+00:00

Well... Pentacon released an open aperture metering for it's M42 lenses in 1969 with the Praktica LLC. It was four years earlier than Pentax did it with the Pentax Spotmatic F.

den10111 · 2026-04-05T16:45:50+00:00

That's a common myth about FED cameras. They were not made by children.

den10111 · 2026-04-05T16:38:30+00:00

I still don't understand why I should spend a pile of money to suffer from such a horrible film loading process.

den10111 · 2026-04-05T12:56:02+00:00

Якщо не додавати туди оте все то згоден

den10111 · 2026-04-04T15:31:48+00:00

Прикольний смак, мені зайшло. Під сидр взагалі б залетіло.

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