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Durante il 1967 e fino a tutto il 1969 la fabbrica KMZ costruì una catena di montaggio di stampaggio pressofuso, permettendo la produzione di massa di uno dei modelli più famosi della produzione sovietica: la Zenit-E.
Analogica, Pentax K 1000 ( 1976 ), Pentax M 50 mm f 2, Kodak color plus 200 asa, sviluppo con Tetenal. La 3M ha un sistema di messa a fuoco più semplice ma difficile delle Zenit successive perchè non ha nemmeno i pentaprismi ma nell' ultimo rullino ho ottenuto buoni risultati, forse ho capito come usarla, peccato che ha il montaggio M 39 e il suo bellissimo Helios in alluminio posso usarlo solo con lei ( non amo gli anelli adattatori )
2021.07.13
Bremerhaven
AIS Name ZENIT
Type Research ship n
Flag Germany
IMO 9313187
MMSI 211411980
Callsign DBHX
Year Built 2004
Length 30 m
Width 6 m
Draught Avg 2.0 m / ...
Speed Avg/Max 9.8 kn / 16.9 kn
Deadweight 9 tons
Gross Tonnage 148
AIS Class A
Curvy, fatty, questionable, heavy, plastic, unreal, fantastic, ugly, awesome, vintage, modern, cult, technology, out of time, M42,...
Please add any more words, to my brainstorming session, it's hard to make a convincing description on this Russian,...
Зенит = Zenit means Zenith that is the point in the sky that appears directly above the observer in astronomy or may mean the highest point
Manufactured by Vileiskiy Zavod Zenit, (Vileiskiy factory Zenit) of BelOMO (Belorussian Optical and Mechanical Association), near Minsk, former USSR
Model: 1991 type 5d, (produced between 1991-92)
all Zenit ET produced between 1982-1993 with quantity 3.000.000
as to Alexander Komarov
35 mm film SLR camera
Lens: MC Helios-44M-6 58mm f/2, (written with Latin letters), automatic diaphragm,
filter theread 52mm, serial no.93451950,
Other standard lens is Helios-44 58mm f/2 with manual diaphragm
Mount: M42 screw mount
Zenit and Valdai logos are on the lens
Aperture: f/2 - f/16, setting dial and ring on the lens
Focus range: 0.5-10m, +inf.
Focusing: Fresnel matte glass screen, ring, scale and DOF scale on the lens
Shutter: Horizontaly travelling, cloth focal-plane shutter, speeds 1/30 - 1/500 +B,
setting dial: on the top plate
Shutter cocking lever: also winds the film, short stroke, on the right of the top plate
Shutter release: on the top plate w/ cable release socket, and a lock mechanism
by half pressing you can see the DOF
Frame counter: coupled with the winding knob, advance type, manual setting
Viewfinder: eye-level SLR pentaprism
Exposure meter: uncoupled Selenium cell lightmeter
Metering: match the needles type, window beside the re-wind lever
Setting: by a complex dial under the re-wind lever with ASA, speed and aperture setting dials
Re-wind lever: folding crank type, left of the top plate
Re-wind release: by a collar around the shutter release
Self timer: activates by a small knob above the lever
Hot-shoe
Flash PC socket: on front of the top plate, X sync.1/30, marked 30-X on the speed dial
Back cover: hinged, opens by lifting the re-winding lever
Body: Plastic bronze coloured top and bottom finish, some parts are also plastic, weight:
Engravings on the bottom plate: Made in USSR and the Vilejka factory logo
Strap lugs
Tripod socket 1/4''
Serial no. 9132008 (stamped inside the back cover, the first two digits show the production year)
Small numbers of early Zenits was produced by KMZ, in 1981-82
Zenit ETs also exist without aperture automation. They offered various finish materials and colours like silver, black, bronze.
This camera is an attempt to modernize the Zenit EM. Initially it looked just like an EM with new lettering, with new designs on the dials.
The cameras produced in BeLomo are a complete remake of earlier Zenit ET. The shape and features remain the same, but material that camera was made is different. It mostly made from plastic and lite alloy. Not only external parts like top and bottom cowers made from plastic, but many internal gears, levers, and pulleys are made from plastic also. But the camera works very smooth, quieter then metal counterpart and the most peculiar feature on this model is the first multi coated lens in mass production.
The Soviet times factory Vileiskiy Zavod Zenit new name is Vilejka Factory, or officially OM RUP ZENIT. Founded in early 1969 in Vilejka, about 75km north-west of Minsk, as a side plant of MMZ and KMZ to produce Zenit cameras. Vilejka, has produced many Zenit models: E, TTL, ET, 11, 15, under slightly different designations. Vilejka is apparently still producing Zenits, i.e. Zenit 130.
MMZ (Minsk Mechanical Factory) was founded in 1957. It started making optical glass and producing cameras that were developed by GOMZ. In 1971 MMZ and Vileiskiy Zavod Zenit merged to form BelOMO (Belorussian Optical and Mechanical Association) . It was based in Minsk.
Optical-Mechanical Factory Valdai is located about 400km north-west of Moscow. Very little is known of this plant, but it has been a prolific producer of lenses for KMZ, and Zenit BelOMO. The SLR lenses bear the Helios name.
more info: Communist Cameras by Nathan Dayton, Fotoua by Alexander Komarov, Sovietcams by Aidas Pikiotas, Sovietcamera by JM Burtscher
I bought this camera just to snap a few pics of the kid. Turned out to be much better than expected and sparked an interest in photography. This camera has been in freezing temperatures, the blazing tropic heat of Belize and what not....Completely reliable. Has not let me down.