GOST to ISO Conversion Chart

[Doug T.]

Hi All!
I just won the bidding on a Zenit TTL ( I'll post a photo when it gets here). I was reminded that there is a difference in film settings on some of the older Soviet Era stuff.
I did a quick search online and found a nice little chart to print out.
Here it is.......
www.kievusa.com/filmspeeds.html

Thanks to 33dollars for the tip

Doug

[Stephen]

In practice the difference was less than 10%, dependant on the table published, and was non linear above 1000 ASA as the tables values sometimes agreed!!! Most photographers simply disregarded the small difference, mainly on the fact that Soviet shutters did not work within 10% tolerances,( and most other makers shutters don't any way!) The Soviets admitted the difference was very trivial, by simply bringing it into line with ISO/ASA, although technically they altered the base reference used to the Western Standards from Kodak.
Stephen.

[Stephen]

And you mentioned the Zenit E before, not the entirely different,( I am joking...)Zenit TTL, which was then Russian high technology, with Zenit E thrown in. On admiring the innards Of these cameras I often wonder about the safety of the Cosmonauts......
Stephen.

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In the late 1970s while visiting Nellis AFB outside Las Vegas, I had the opportunity to see a Soviet MIG-23 fighter up close. It was pretty much state of the art Soviet hardware at that time. They had part of the skin off on example that was being evaluated. I'm not an engineer but even I could tell that the airframe wasn't comparable to U.S. aircraft. It looked like it had been produced in someone's backyard garage. Many of the welds were really sloppy. But the 23 seemed to work fine. Same with the Soviet T-34 tank--probably the best tank during WWII. The T34s looked crude and unsophisticated but were really reliable and could take a hit that would have turned the American Sherman tank into a fireworks display. Sometimes simple is better.