Agat-18 in its last days

I discovered today that I still have a single roll of the fifteen-year-old (or thereabouts) Kodak Supra 800 film that is so grainy. I thought I had used it all up. So now :) I'm looking forward to using it again.

This shot comes from what I thought at the time was the last roll, shot in the Agat-18, a plastic half-frame camera from the Soviet Union that has one of the strangest lenses I've ever used. When the camera was doing what it was supposed to do, it was razor sharp at the centre and dreamy soft in the sides and corners. Lomo before most people heard of Lomo. But las' goin' off, this camera got tired and just was soft everywhere. And some piece of plastic has let go in its mechanical chain, making it unusable anyway. I retired it after this roll which was about four months ago.