Taking My ZORKI 4 On A News Assignment - Loading Color Film and Going Off To Shoot

I finally load the ZORKI 4 with fresh 35mm film and head out on a news assignment to cover a firefighter training structure fire for my local newspaper. For the assignment I shot my Fujifilm digital cameras, of course, but I also snapped off a few frames on the Zorki 4 to see how that was. Results to come in a future video and Community Post! This is a vintage film camera diary, of sorts, as you are welcomed to follow along on this photographic journey documenting the ups and downs traveling with an old Russian! After years of manual focus and manual exposure photography this pro made the switch into the auto focus digital world in his middle-aged years. Digital has been a friend during these years and will continue for paid work. As with many shooters, old and young, the love and mystique of film cameras and film photography is coming back into “hipness!“ Enter a 53-year-old visitor from the former USSR in the form of the famous, totally manual and mechanical, Zorki 4 Russian-made 35mm rangefinder camera, the pride of the Motherland at the time. This new addition to his stable of 35mm cameras was made in 1970, when this newest owner was a sophomore in high school. Call it longing for the “Old Days” of photography or just a “swept off his feet” moment with an attractive Russian body, the Zorki 4 rangefinder has captured his imagination and has begun to refuel the passion for analog picture making once again. #photography, #film, 35mm, #filmcamera, #russiancameras, #Zorki 4, #analog, #rangefinder, #leica, #leicacopy, #vintagecameras,