Blue Skies over Provence

One of hte mersey pilot boats, and a jet ski

The Krasnogorsk 3 is a clockwork Russian 16mm mirror-reflex movie camera manufactured at the KMZ factory (Krasnogorskij Mechanicheskij Zavod which translates to Krasnogorsk Mechanical Plant) near Moscow. It was still being manufactured up until the early 1990s.

Most later K-3s have an M42x1 lens mount (also known as a Zenit or Pentax screw mount), although there are some older cameras which use the same bayonet mount as earlier Krasnogorsk movie cameras. The standard lens for the K3 is the Meteor-5 17 to 69mm F1.9 Zoom lens.

The camera uses 100ft(30m) reels of 16mm film, the film can be either single or double perforated, when fully wound the camera will run through about 5m of film (approximately 30 seconds of footage at 24 frames per second) in one go. The camera can be run at 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, or 48 frames per second.

The Seagull 205a is a fixed lens 35mm rangefinder produced in the mid to late 1970′s in the Peoples Republic of China at the original Seagull factory in Shanghai. It is a fully manual camera with no automation at all, and doesn’t have a light meter built in, meaning that for accurate exposure one needs skill at judging lighting conditions and appropriate settings, or an external lightmeter.

The lens is a Haiou-45, which has a focal length 38mm with a maximum aperture of f2.8, it produces very sharp and contrasty images, it also produces highly saturated colour in images taken with the camera.

The Moskva 5, is a folding medium format rangefinder, produced by KMZ, Krasnogorskii Mechanicheskii Zavod or Krasnogorsk Mechanical factory in the late 1950s, the one shown was produced in 1959. It uses 120 roll film, and produces exposures of either 6×9 or 6×6 with an adapter fitted inside.

The Moskva 5 is based on the Zeiss Super Ikonta

It has an f3.5 105mm Industar-24L lens, which provides roughly equivalent to a 35mm standard lens with a focal length of 50mm when used with a 6×9 exposure, or with the 6×6 adapter it provides a mild telephoto.