The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: zenit-e

I bought this for practically nothing and only because I wanted the lens on it. Both camera and lens were stiff and the camera's shutter was not dependable. But it nevertheless had some value as a subject for a picture. The Zenith-E was succeded by the EM which was my first decent camera and is fondly remembered. The manufacturers gave the EM an automatic diaphragm to relieve users of the necessity to stop-down and that was a big deal at the time. What I did rather object to was the big effort needed to release the shutter that had been caused as a result.

Photographed with a Nikon D2Xs and Nikkor 28mm f/3.5 AI lens at f/8. I bought this camera for £28 but the price also included a set of three M42 extension tubes, a Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Orestegor 200mm f/4 lens, and an early example of the Helios-44 58mm f/2 lens. The Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Orestegor 200mm f/4 is a remarkable lens. It was manufactured by Meyer Optik, Gorlitz, between 1963 and 1970 and has 15 aperture blades. It is a preset manual M42 lens, with continuous aperture - the aperture ring has no detents in it, and so it is stepless with a seemingly infinite number of aperture positions. And the Helios-44, which is a a Soviet copy of the Carl Zeiss Biotar 58mm ƒ/2 lens, is full of character with its notable bokeh. In fact, only the camera was a disappointment, because the shutter is unreliable.

A whimsical reflection on digital and its analogue and mechanical predecessor. Photographed using a 58mm Helios-44 f/2 lens on a Canon EOS 40D camera.