{"id":50102,"date":"2026-06-29T23:22:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeals75.com\/blog\/50102"},"modified":"2026-06-29T23:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:29:39","slug":"ep297-%e6%84%8f%e8%ad%98%e6%8b%86%e8%a7%a3-kiev-645-%e8%88%87-harman-pheonix-ii-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeals75.com\/en\/blog\/50102","title":{"rendered":"EP297: Unraveling \u2014 Kiev 645 with Harman Phoenix II 200"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nRoll 297<\/p>\n

Film: Harman Phoenix II 200 @ ISO 200
\nDeveloped & scanned: DEP Lab 2025\/10\/8
\nCamera: Kiev 645
\nLens: Kiev Arsat C 80mm f2.8<\/p>\n

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I've been making a very deliberate effort lately to slow down my film shooting. I still have 37 rolls left to write up, and if I'm going to seriously start working on the book, clearing that backlog first feels necessary \u2014 I can't have a mountain of unwritten film posts distracting me. Maybe that's part of what's driving the Sigma BF plan: shift my attention toward digital for a while and focus on working through the existing film.<\/p>\n

I was born in 1986, the Year of the Tiger, ROC year 75 \u2014 which is why the \"75\" is in this site's URL, zeals75.com. With 2026 approaching, I'm about to turn 40. If I live to 80, then 40 is the official midpoint \u2014 the start of the downward slope of middle age. Honestly, it's a little hard to accept. Whenever I think about it, I find myself looking back at my younger self, checking for regrets.<\/p>\n

If there's one regret, it's this: I didn't know my father would leave so soon. If I had known, I would have taken far more photos of him, and made time for more meals with him \u2014 just the two of us.<\/p>\n

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\n#1
\nMy first roll of 120 Harman Phoenix II. To test its latitude, I decided to shoot at ISO 200. My light meter is only a phone app, but I'm fairly sure Phoenix II is still a low-latitude film \u2014 neither overexposure nor underexposure is forgiven. The tree I pass on my runs.
\nKiev Arsat C 80mm f2.8 (1\/500, f8)<\/p>\n

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\n#2
\nMy son's kindergarten classmate invited him swimming. I actually think swimming pools make wonderful subjects \u2014 the trouble is that many of them have \"no photography\" signs.
\nKiev Arsat C 80mm f2.8 (1\/500, f4, +0.8 EV)<\/p>\n

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\n#3
\nMetering off the LED. This is the on-site work scene I go through every week.
\nKiev Arsat C 80mm f2.8 (1\/60, f2.8, -0.8 EV)<\/p>\n

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\n#4
\nI've lost count of how many times I've said it, but the reason I love the Kiev 645 is that it shoots in portrait orientation by default \u2014 exactly like the Olympus Pen F series.
\nKiev Arsat C 80mm f2.8 (1\/60, f2.8, -0.8 EV)<\/p>\n

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\n#5
\nI'd driven down to Nantou to see a friend, and on the way back I took a short nap at the Tai'an rest stop. I'd just woken up \u2014 must have slept twenty-some minutes. A human fast-charge: my mind and thoughts as sharp as the center of this frame.
\nKiev Arsat C 80mm f2.8 (1\/1000, f2.8, +0.8 EV)<\/p>\n

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\n#6
\nWhen I was young, I once told my family I thought Mazda made handsome cars and wanted to buy one someday. My family \u2014 my mother, specifically \u2014 told me Mazda makes trucks, so what's handsome about that? I didn't understand at the time, but over a decade later I finally saw a Mazda truck with my own eyes. So that's the stereotype the older generation held about Mazda.
\nKiev Arsat C 80mm f2.8 (1\/1000, f2.8, +0.8 EV)<\/p>\n

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\n#7
\nIf there's no motion blur at 1\/250s, it means the vehicle really was moving slowly.
\nKiev Arsat C 80mm f2.8 (1\/250, f2.8, +3.2 EV)<\/p>\n

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\n#8
\nI wanted to shoot this scene, but someone happened to walk in.
\nKiev Arsat C 80mm f2.8 (1\/125, f16)<\/p>\n

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\n#9
\nI waited for them to leave, then took a second frame.
\nKiev Arsat C 80mm f2.8 (1\/125, f16)<\/p>\n

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\n#10
\nI'm not sure why this one came out so badly overexposed. Maybe my metering was off?
\nKiev Arsat C 80mm f2.8 (1\/125, f4, +2.2 EV)<\/p>\n

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\n#11
\nScenery in medium format always carries an inexplicable sense of quiet.
\nKiev Arsat C 80mm f2.8 (1\/125, f16)<\/p>\n

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\n#12
\nI waited a while for a car to pass.
\nKiev Arsat C 80mm f2.8 (1\/500, f8)<\/p>\n

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\n#13
\nThe Kiev 645 is actually quite fully featured \u2014 a top shutter speed of 1\/1000s, both eye-level and waist-level finders, and even mirror lock-up (MLU). My biggest fear is triggering the MLU by accident, and that's exactly what happened here: the whole viewfinder went black and I couldn't see a thing. So I shot blind, pointed at a patch of grass, and pressed the shutter. Among ten thousand blades of grass, at least one is bound to be in focus \u2014 that way I wouldn't end up with a completely out-of-focus failure.
\nKiev Arsat C 80mm f2.8 (1\/1000, f2.8)<\/p>\n

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That's this roll \u2014 Kiev 645 with Harman Phoenix II 200. Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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