10
Apr
As anyone who's read my articles will know, I am a fan of retro-photographic equipment and materials and a stalwart of film-based monochrome photography. I'd fancied another 35mm camera that was, well, more expendable, for a while. On a trip to Manchester to buy film and art materials, I returned with a Soviet made Zorki 4 rangefinder camera. This camera is based on the Leica series with a focal plane shutter and is very simple. It does have a split image focusing, but no exposure metre; I have a hand-held metre to contend with that. The camera weighs a ton,…