This Soviet Union era twin-lens reflex camera found its way to me from my homehome, and to my knowledge it was my dads godmothers, or at least her home is where it was previously at. I’ve been dabbling in film photography but I’ve yet to try medium format.
I took the camera with me to the city and ordered black and white 120mm film for it. While waiting for my film to arrive, I looked for youtube videos and blog posts to help me figure out how this mysterious picture making box works. For the life of me, I could not decipher what all the knobs and levers do. It didn’t help that some seemed to be stuck. I might have used some force to make them move, and kept winding and clicking for a long time until I felt like I could trust they wouldn’t get stuck again.
Today my films arrived and I hurried to the post office straight from school. I carefully loaded the film and after some hesitation, decided to just go for it. I took three pictures, and will plan on shooting the roll (which will probably be 12 6x6cm photos) fairly soon so I can have it developed and see if there is any potential on it.
I’m not gonna lie, even if it’s no good, I’d use this camera to take pictures through the sexy waist level view finder.
