I've been having way too much fun with the Salyut-S.

It's become my carry everywhere camera. I got my first roll back and it appears I may have a light leak. Ken made a suggestion to isolate the problem and he knows how to fix it if it is what he thinks it is. Or I may just need to load it right. Still getting the drill down. It only seemed to affect the first 4 frames. But what makes this camera is that it comes apart!

Not only does it have interchangeable lenses (from 30mm (18mm equiv.) to 300mm (190mm equiv)) but also interchangeable backs. This will let me shoot black & white and color and change backs mid roll. Also there are interchangeable finders. It comes with a waist level finder (which is great for many types of shots) but while the image is upright it's also flipped right to left. There are three prism finders that magnify a give an image that has the right on the right. Two of the prism finders have TTL meters. There is probably a meterless prism in my future.

The film back has a dark slide that blocks light from the film when the back is off with film in it. (The light leak may be with the dark slide.) A cartridge that holds the film comes out for loading.

This is the titanium shutter curtain. That is a 2 1/4 inch opening. There are two curtains and they form a slit as the move from right to left really fast. The slit size is different to give the different speeds.

You can see the mirror that reflects the image from the lens up to the ground glass on top of the camera.

When the shutter release is pressed the mirror flips up and the shutter curtains do their thing. The mirror stays up until you cock the shutter and advance the film. Here is a picture from the first role with a large detail.

I'm having way too much fun.