Ideas for Interview Questions

Yea I know Yura, I just read your interview, you pretty much said exact same thing almost but from your viewpoint of a "power-user". Great interview by the way, I've really enjoyed reading it... Unfortunately this particular interview I did turned out to be quite a flop but I will keep on talking to people, my circle of Russian-speaking former photographers is not so small here in Chicago.. so I'll keep on digging. .

Vlad

And, not so different in the USA! I was a professional photographer and photographer's assistant at studios in New York. Most American photographers liked Hasselblad, Nikon, Leica. Not American cameras. But of course, in the US Kodak was used successfully by non-professionals and in the Soviet Union the Zenit and Smena were Kings!

Vlad, I thought your interview was very good!

Regards, Bill

Zoom

Shostka is the town with a big chemical and film plant (now closed). You know it brand: SVEMA.
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Dimitri Is now there any film maker in Former SU area?
Regards
LP

I tried to interview Isaak Maizenberg in 1998. I was quite excited talking to him, since I knew his books and articles in Sovetskoe Foto for many years. He was selling his repair book then, I called him to order it, and then we talked on the phone a few times.
He was not a photographer, so he did not tell much about camera use, mostly about his life and work. But like most people of his generation he was quite respectful towards the Soviet cameras, and did not sound snotty. The cameras were what they were, and if they did not work well, they had to be fixed.

Thank you!

Smena rules

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Originally posted by Luiz Paracampo

Is now there any film maker in Former SU area?

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TASMA: http://www.tasma.ru/

Hi fedka,

I did not know your interview made 10 years ago… Sorry
Fascinating.
Thanks.

Michel.