Start SLR Interchangeable Waist Level Viewfinder

   
 
 
 
 
 

View showing interchangeable waist level finder.  The circular button located on the back of the camera adjacent to the finder  locks it in place.  The magnifying glass is used for fine focus. Notice the FED  type shutter  speed layout.

Melanie Woolpit Steam 2006

Melanie Woolpit Steam 2006

Melanie Woolpit Steam 2006

The above photographs were taken at Woolpit Steam 2006  with my Start Camera.  These are  interesting photograph as you never really see other photographers in action. The subject material is my wife Melanie using her Fujica  ST605N SLR camera with a superb backdrop of steam engines and coal smoke filled air.  The Fujica ST605N is a superb underated bit of kit and well worth getting hold of for mounting your Soviet lenses on.   Melanie reckons it is a good all round starter camera with a very good specification.  One odd feature of this camera is a top shutter speed 1/700th second. 

Links    -    Woolpit Steam      Fujica ST605N


As you can see and also  mentioned towards the beginning of this website.  This website is a work in progress and not that well organized.  My excuse is that I see this as  a sort of scrap book -  OK it is just a first attempt at using free software to create an interesting website. The next camera I decide to do will be more polished and will probably be the Zenit 3m SLR or the folding Kodak Retinette.  I am still on a steep learning curve on how to create a site using Linux.  For those interested in free software I suggest the following for Linux  

 Links    -    NVU HTML    KDE ShowFoto     GIMP    JAlbum   &  MEPIS Linux    

For MS Windows users I suggest  

 Links    -    GIMP    Gimpshop     Paintdotnet   irfanview    &  Xnview  

 I would advise MS Windows users to try  Gimp or the Paint.net option as I think these are the best and quickest way to get into free photo editing without spending loads of money Paint Shop Pro, Elements or Photoshop.  There is even a version of Gimp called Gimpshop which  attempts to look like Photoshop.  Most of these options are also available for the Apple Mac OS.

 
Camera used to take photographs of Start:
FUJIFILM FinePix E550 | Date: 06/01/07 04:45 | Resolution: 1000 x 975 | ISO: 800 | Exp. Time: 1/600s | Aperture: 5.6 | Focal Length: 7.2mm
I am apparently an avid yet skinflintish camera collector who has a penchant for Eastern European cameras. My main interest is in collecting and using rangefinder cameras from the golden era of photography which is roughly from the mid 1930's to the early 1960's.


Comments and suggestions to stowupland@hotmail.com    
© Stephen Rothery 2007


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