My Maier Moment - Sporting a Zorkij Rangefinder

I have owned a Zorkij rangefinder camera for a while now, and finally, this past September, I had the opportunity to use it. The camera is a Soviet copy of a Leica model II I think, but is considerably heavier than the original. Vivian Maier used the model II and I understand why, because it is a small and comparably light camera.
This time I used my 50 mm Canon f/1,8 lens. It's a lens with some fogging to an internal glass element. This time there was no bright sun, so the fogging haven't affected the images which it otherwise would have - adding a glow to strongly lit details, for instance.
The film is a Rollei Retro 400S developed by the book by a friendly lab in Gothenburg.

There was a market in town and I managed to sneak some photographs before they'd set up shop.

Later on I took a walk along the river.

Then another early morning.

Then came the rain...

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