[Konvas] Kragnagorsk 1/2 question

[Adam Frey]

I agree with Colcam. I bought a K-3 a long time ago and never did get the dang thing to work properly without chewing up at least a few perfs here and there. I sold mine and moved on to a 16mm Filmo, which are extremely well built and practically never have issues. Never messed with or have even seen a real K-1 or K-2 up close.

That said, list member David Crosson had a K-3 we did a test roll with; we shot it here on the farm and it looked decent enough, IMO. It had lots of flare, but the 17-69mm Zenit zoom was kinda limiting - you’d be doing a lot of running to get all the shots needed. Luckily it’s an M42 lens mount, so you can swap it out with other lenses. The Zenit isn’t going to compare to LOMO lenses in any way though. As for the camera body - it’s loud as all get out, only holds 100’ of film, kinda hard to load, and tends to have light leaks. If you can get the film to load and not get eaten, you’re better than me.

Most buy the the K-3 unopened from their Soviet days and immediately send them off to get rebuilt - so you’ll drop a lot more money on it than the up front expected costs. If you want to convert them to Super16, it’s gonna cost even more. You could possibly do some (all?) of the work yourself, if you have the right tools and the know-how, but I doubt you’d make your money back for all the time invested and specific tools needed after you sold it.

P.S. David Crosson ran me over with the Filmo’s big brother, the 35mm Eyemo, on a film shoot one time. What a good memory... bahaha

Cheers!

Adam Frey
Frey's Brewing Company
http://freysbrewing.com
8601 Mapleville Road
Mount Airy, MD 21771

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> On Jan 5, 2018, at 09:46, colcam--- via Cinema <cinema at konvas.org> wrote:
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> I am going to say something strange here.
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> What is the justification or reason for the Soviet 16mm?  The German, Swiss, and American 16mm were better cameras by a long shot, and Soviet 16mm glass was less than perfect.  
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> I kind of feel that Soviet 16mm systems are the Trabant in a parking lot full of Euro/US cars.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Esten via Cinema <cinema at konvas.org>
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> Subject: [Konvas] Kragnagorsk 1/2 question
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> Hey Konvateers! Question guy here :-) For the 16mm Kragy 1 and 2 hand-wound spring models, can they chew on Kodak single-perf or are we looking at Russian-only film stock for these two? С Новым годом! Brandon Sent from my iPhone WE COULD REALLY USE YOUR HELP! The sharing of information on both the Konvas.org website and the discussion list takes a lot of time and costs money. Your donations help keep Konvas.org running and are very much appreciated: http://konvas.org/how-to/help-konvas.org-donate.html _______________________________________________ Cinema mailing list Cinema at konvas.org http://Konvas.org - All about Konvas, Kinor and other Russian Cinema Cameras Visit the discussion archives: http://konvas.org/list-archives.html Join the Konvas Discussion List: http://konvas.org/mailman/listinfo/cinema_konvas.org Please be kind when replying and crop the replied message!!!
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