Zorki 1, holes in shutter...

I developed the first roll of film shot with my Zorki 1C camera yesterday, but found that the negatives were full of white spots due to holes in the cloth shutter. I ordered new shutter curtains on Ebay, and in the meantime I have covered the holes on the old shutter with black paint.

It's a good thing that I got the extra FED 1 camera, I have been using it as a guinea pig for repairs. Last night I fully disassembled it to remove the shutter assembly, and then put it back together. It took a couple of tries to get it back together successfully, but I now know how everything fits together and works.

I finished developing and scanning the film from my test this morning. Here are a couple of samples. I was using Fuji Acros, and ID-11. The Acros seems a little slow for this camera, which made getting a sharp image handheld a little difficult. I'll use Neopan 400 on my next test.

Good job. But how can Acros be too slow with sunshine?

The Acros was too slow because there were lots of shadows. I don't like black shadows, so I expose long enough to bring out the details which would otherwise not be visible, like the grass under the trees, or the woodwork on the bottom of the town gate. I also wanted more depth of field, which required a smaller aperture, and which made my exposure times even slower.

I don't have a separate light meter, but I have an Olympus OM4Ti camera with the spot meter feature. Using the OM4, I can spot meter up to 8 different parts of the scene, and the camera will average the readings out and give me the recommended exposure.

For these pictures I exposed at either 1/40 or 1/60 at F11.

I just loaded the camera with Neopan 400, which should work better.