It is big. It is heavy as a brick and handles like one. It is extremely noisy and the viewfinder is... let's say... dark. Why should I ever bother with this camera? Let's take the story from the beginning. When my brother in law moved into his new house, he found this camera in his basement. Obviously the previous owner didn't consider taking it with him. Then my mother in law, who knows that I collect cameras saved it from a certain disposal. That summer i got married so I always considered it a kind of wedding present. The camera came with the standard Helios 44-M4, a biotar copy, which appears to be single coated (I might be wrong). Obviously the Helios is a pretty decent lens, provides nice, old fashioned pictures with low contrast but try to avoid the sunshine because it really strangles to cope with high contrast. It appeared to be working ok so i run a film while on vacations and one when I returned to Edinburgh. From those two films i got the following pictur...
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