View showing top of Helios-44 lens assembly.  The engraved text  for depth of field, aperture and distance markings are of very high quality and one area of this camera where the ergonomics are perfect.  As you can see the focus ring markings and aperture  spacings are  more than  adequate for  pre-setting  for those difficult photographs.  This puts a lot of more expensive cameras to shame!  Future Zenit versions of this lens also did away with this superb layout!

Waist lever finder showing magnifying glass and logo. This is a beautifully engineered  bit of kit the equal of anything I have seen from Germany or Japan. 

Above are two colour photographs taken at Woolpit Steam 2006 with my Start  camera.  At this annual event they  have loads of classic cars, lorries and motorbikes exhibited which is great for photographers. I  tend to take a number of classic camera along  as  it is easy to go though loads of film on the day  and develop it as soon as you get home. I think this year I shot six rolls of film!

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.