‘Dune: Part Two’ Was Shot Using Vintage Soviet Photo Lenses
The biggest movie of 2024, Dune: Part Two, was shot using the latest and greatest cameras and lenses -- plus some vintage Soviet-era lenses. [Read More] petapixel.com »
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The biggest movie of 2024, Dune: Part Two, was shot using the latest and greatest cameras and lenses -- plus some vintage Soviet-era lenses. [Read More] petapixel.com »
A Redditor's 3D-printable pistol grip for cameras takes the phrase "point and shoot" and makes it a lot more literal.
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petapixel.com »Australian photographer Dean Sewell spent 15 months in Russia after the breakup of the former USSR. When Russia invaded Ukraine, he was suddenly reminded that he still had more than two dozen undeveloped B&W film rolls from 1996 to 1997. [Read More] petapixel.com »
For this year's Valentine's day, my jewelry brand Soda Futura packed jewelry in limited velvet rose packaging. I thought that there is no better place to sell them than the soviet flower market in Vilnius, Lithuania. boredpanda.com »
If you’re fans of history, vintage aesthetics, and old-timey photography, dear Pandas, then this is the article for you. The post 40 Pics That Perfectly Sum Up The Soviet And Post Soviet Times, As Shared On This Page first appeared on Bored Panda. boredpanda.com »
Photo by: William Parkinson via USSR Photo, used with permission from Kosmo Foto. For this week’s installment of Film Friday, we’re featuring a psuedo-review of the 6TTL, a camera from Soviet manufacturer FED that went through a great deal of prototyping, but never made it to market amidst the collapse of the Soviet Union. dpreview.com »
Photo by: William Parkinson via USSR Photo, used with permission from Kosmo Foto. For this week’s installment of Film Friday, we’re featuring a psuedo-review of the 6TTL, a camera from Soviet manufacturer FED that went through a great deal of prototyping, but never made it to market amidst the collapse of the Soviet Union. dpreview.com »
Beneath the streets of Tbilisi lies a network of tunnels, bomb shelters, and Soviet-era chambers that many locals know nothing about. Over the past several months, photographer David Tabagari has been exploring this silent underworld with extraordinary results. petapixel.com »
Having explored abandoned places for quite some time, sometimes it seems that we have seen everything. But this time, it was not the case. We knew it would be special, but we couldn’t imagine that it would be THAT special. boredpanda.com »
Photo: Paulo Moreira Considering getting your hands on a Soviet film camera? Good for you! There's quite a few quality options out there and many can be had for a reasonable price. But before you go and pull the trigger on a Zorki-3C rangefinder like the one above, we suggest reading the guide below from our pals at KosmoFoto. dpreview.com »
The dreamy look of retro photography continues to be a popular aesthetic even for digital photography, and nothing is better than getting it using the real deal. Vintage Soviet lenses, for example, make great options for adapting to your digital cameras because there's still a fair number of them available out there for cheap. thephoblographer.com »
Following a dark journey of discovery through the former lands of Yugoslavia, Spomeniki presents a visionary series of monuments with unique shape, form, and texture. boredpanda.com »
My name is Dimitri and I am a photographer based in France. I am known for my brand name Jahz (Jahz Design). I infiltrated a dusty hangar on the steppes of Kazakhstan to capture one of the last remnants of the Cold War cosmos race. boredpanda.com »
When I first saw pictures of the beautiful old buildings in the region of Abkhazia in 2014, I was immediately enchanted. The architecture and the beautiful landscape surrounding the ruins were an aesthetic dream for me. boredpanda.com »
When I first saw pictures of the beautiful old buildings in the region of Abkhazia in 2014, I was immediately enchanted. The architecture and the beautiful landscape surrounding the ruins were an aesthetic dream for me. boredpanda.com »
U. S. -trained Afghans photographed the Soviet invasion in the 1980s. These rare color photos bring the U. S. S. R. ’s “hidden war” to light. A fighter watches a Soviet bombardment hammer an Afghan valley. petapixel.com »
I recently came back from my trip through Central Asia for a photo project. A fairly unknown region but quite spectacular. It consists of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan which are all former Soviet states. boredpanda.com »
During the Soviet Union the Georgian town of Tskaltubo was a popular health destination famed for its therapeutic water and sanatoriums. Four trains arrived daily full of guests from Moscow. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the buildings were abandoned and fell into decay. boredpanda.com »
These little cute houses were built about 50 years ago. It was a whole district. People stayed there for the summers to grow all kinds of vegetables and just relax. boredpanda.com »
The brilliant photographer Christopher Herwig was the first to be interested in the numerous Soviet-era buses of architecture buses. Following the success of his first book Soviet Bus Stops, he decided to continue exploring the more remote areas of Georgia, Russia and Ukraine to find and photograph his unique bus stops for his new collection in the Soviet Bus Stops Volume 2. boredpanda.com »
As Central Asia was transformed under Soviet rule, one man made a remarkable record of life in the fledgling Uzbek S. S. R. before being driven from his career and toward tragedy. A worker's rally in the courtyard of a textile mill in Tashkent. petapixel.com »
Heads up, vintage camera collectors and Russian camera fans! There's a rare, Soviet Era spy camera that you can snag off eBay, and it's actually a pretty interesting piece of photography history. thephoblographer.com »
This is really cool. It turns out you can browse through full issues of the old Soviet Photo (AKA “Советское фото”) magazine online at Archive. org. Fans of photography history will love this treasure trove, which contains 437 digitized issues originally published between 1926 and 1991. petapixel.com »
There are some fantastic portrait lenses out there for cheap, if you know where to look. A great example is the Jupiter-9: a 50-year-old M42 mount 85mm f/2 Soviet lens that, in the right hands, captures beautiful portraits with gorgeous bokeh. petapixel.com »
Photographer Manuel Ortiz went out and did something many of us have been considering a lot lately: he bought himself a cheap, vintage Soviet lens. And now, we get to join him to see how this awesome old portrait lens performs when it’s attached to the very modern Sony A7R II. Old Soviet lenses have […] petapixel.com »
On May 1st 1960, as CIA pilot Gary Powers plummeted towards the Russian countryside at hundreds of miles per hour, desperately trying to activate the self-destruct mechanism on his crippled U-2 spy plane, he probably didn't realize he was about to change photographic history. digitalrev.com »