A short shoot with Brigitte (MM#1102156) on my favourite Cockatoo Island with the awesome Soviet Foto-Snaiper. This time going all out with another soviet era camera, the Kiev 88 (loaded with Fuji Provia 400X) alongside my Nikon FM2 (loaded with Kodak 400 Tri-X), Fujifilm X100 and the Ricoh GXR A12 M-Mount module that I was demo’ing at the time. Read More
Took the Kiev 88 out for a short stroll again, this time mindful of its idiosyncrasies, I was accompanied by Steph and Rachel who did the makeup for this set of photos. Read More
My most recent acquisition from glorious Russia Ukraine was a Kiev 88 manufactured in 1987, unopened and unused since then. Knowing that this is a bit of a gamble due to horror stories and notorious quality control at that period, this is still a direct Hasselblad copy and hence I gave into temptation. Read More