About photography…

Photography has forever lost its mystery and mystery, when a lot of time had to elapse between pressing the shutter button and getting the result. You have to be selective – because we have only 36 кадров. Choosing a film in the store (“Tape”, or “Свема”, and the required units, and not find), if colored, then the GDR-Rov OrwoColor. Black plastic bottles with a spiral bottom for film developing, проявитель, фиксаж, leaving on banks, in which he was kept a thin layer of silver, Unibrom paper, and finally the climax, the most enchanting action – printing photos, using a photo enlarger. This is something akin to magic – on a white sheet of photographic paper, from the mouth, the image gradually appears. Failure could be possible at any stage, worst of all, when the film accidentally lights up or does not develop well – this is already irreparable. I didn't have a photomagnifier, I took to use, or went to friends, when the tapes were collected. Ah yes, there was also a photo circle. The prints glittered at a fellow classmate (he had an electric gloss – two mirror planes on the heating element), then paper Birch, with polyethylene coating, removed this problem.
At first I learned to shoot with a camera “Seagull-3”, the film rewind mechanism is broken there (I did it manually, in a darkened room). And then they gave me Kiev-19 for my birthday. It was cool – real semi-professional DSLR, with metal shutters, TTL system…
… The last time I shot it was a few years ago.. Море, rocks. Good ones, яркие, juicy shots. The era of photo booths and numbers has long begun. Practicality took its toll. Нажми на кнопку – get instant results. “Kyiv” gathering dust in his leather case, in the closet. Yesterday I suddenly got it, checked, clicked – everything works, even the battery is not discharged. Here are the memories flooded.