There’s a website similar to craigslist.org in Chile called vivastreet.cl. I’ve been keeping a watchful eye there for a used camera. And yesterday I finally reached the breaking point. I made the phone call and met the man. After examining the camera and walking all over downtown with Cesar in search of the right battery (because I’m a gringa, not an idiot, and I needed to see that it worked before I bought it), I walked home with a very heavy camera in tow. Do you (faithful blog readers) remember when I said that I would take any camera? That it could be from the year 1956 and barely work, and I’d be happy? Well—The “barely work” part, I’m sure of. [I am a bit worried that I will ‘finish’ the roll, only to discover that the advancer doesn’t advance the film. Or that the aperture on one of the lenses doesn’t adjust. – In which case, Goodbye 70mil.] But the “1956” part is also quite possible. Trying to figure out how to work this Zenit, this new style of non-Canon, I turned the camera over and discovered: “Made in the USSR.”
Which made me curious. Why is it in English? Was it made to be imported? Certainly not. … There’s no sign of Russian on the camera at all. Hm. AND, the man I bought it from told me that he bought it just 8 years ago. 8 or 9, that’s all. I thought he looked a bit Russian.
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