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news New look for system-x.info

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System-X has now moved over to using wordpress, rather than a custom CMS, as I no longer had time to maintain the code of the old system due to work commitments. if you are looking for the old site you can find it at old.system-x.info

All of the old content is on there, but comments, tagging, and trackbacks have been disabled, so I no longer have to do any maintenance on it.

Most of the image based content from the old site has been migrated over to wordpress, and I am currently working on porting over all of the text from the old site to the new wordpress site.

I’d be interested to know what people think of this change.

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Communist Cameras, Digital, Photo Neva2

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Neva2

The Neva-2 is a double 8 cine camera designed and built by the LOMO factory in St. Petersburg around 1962.

The Neva-2 has a selectable frame rates, at 8 fps, 16 fps, 24 fps, and 48 fps, although the faster the frame rate the louder the camera is, as it runs completely on clockwork, although other than the noise this brings one advantage over a motorised cine camera there is no need for batteries, just turn a dial on the side, and away you go. When fully wound it will run for just over a minute at 48fps, which is pretty impressive really, as it’s equates to about two thirds of a reel of double 8 film in a single long shot.

It has a turret lens mount, meaning that lenses can be changed rapidly, just press a button on the front of the turret, and it springs forward, then you simply rotate it to the lens you want and push it back in.

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Communist Cameras, Digital, Photo Kiev88

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Kiev88

The Kiev 88 is a Ukrainian Medium format SLR, It’s development started with the Salyut which went into mass production in 1957 at the Arsenal factory in Kiev. It has interchangeable Viewfinders, including a top down viewfinder, and metered and unmetered pentaprism viewfinders (the viewfinder shown is the TTL spot meter pentaprism), and interchangeable backs, allowing you to swap film halfway through a roll, using either 120 roll film, with 6×6 or 6×4.5 size exposures, or polaroid instant film.

The example in the picture is an upgraded version of the Arsenal factory model, produced by Arax who are also based in the Ukraine.

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