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Michael Perkins
perkinsmg

United Kingdom
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Posted - Sep 18 2020 :  02:42:29 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Here's an interesting piece from "Russians on the March" in PhotoGuide Magazine (Focal Press), October 1958. It describes several well-known contemporary Soviet cameras, along with the Kometa, and this, the "Kadr". I've never seen reference to this anywhere else, even as a prototype. Anyone heard of it or was it pure invention?

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Vladislav Kern
Vlad
USA
4236 Posts
My Collection

Posted - Sep 18 2020 :  09:53:39 AM  Show Profile  Visit Vlad's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Hi Michael,

thanks for posting this, quite interesting! I've never heard of it before, but dug through KMZ archive site and found it! This seems to be just a project for a camera that was never released as far as even KMZ writes.. but who knows weirder prototypes had surfaced.

Run this via translate.
http://www.zenitcamera.com/archive/kadr/index.html

Cheers,
Vlad
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Michael Perkins
perkinsmg
United Kingdom
27 Posts
Posted - Sep 18 2020 :  11:40:18 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi Vlad - thanks a lot for that! Everything fits - the timing of my magazine with the World Exhibition, the rush to get photographic announcements there that in the end never saw light of day...

Most of all thanks for pointing me to the KMZ archive site. I hadn't come across that before and there's lots of information, and google translates it very well for those of us whose Russian isn't up to the job!

Michael.
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Alexander K.
AlexanderK
Germany
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Posted - Oct 26 2020 :  1:15:46 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi Michael,
hier is original booklet from 1958:










Regards, Alexander
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Michael Perkins
perkinsmg
United Kingdom
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Posted - Oct 26 2020 :  1:37:38 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
That's brilliant, thanks Alexander!
Shame it never saw light of day.

Michael.
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Jacques M.
France
2554 Posts
Posted - Oct 29 2020 :  4:23:06 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote

And with a French version of the booklet... I dream!
Merci, Alexander.
So, this Kadr was specially prepared for the Bruxelles international exhibition of 1958. Like the Kometa...
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Luiz Paracampo
Luiz Paracampo
Brazil
1959 Posts
My Collection

Posted - Nov 07 2020 :  1:33:39 PM  Show Profile  Visit Luiz Paracampo's Homepage  Reply with Quote
OBSERVE THE 115MM 5.6 WAS RECENTLY USED AS BELAIRGON IN BELAIR LOMOGRAPHIC CAMERA
REGARDS
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Luiz Paracampo
Luiz Paracampo
Brazil
1959 Posts
My Collection

Posted - Nov 07 2020 :  1:38:17 PM  Show Profile  Visit Luiz Paracampo's Homepage  Reply with Quote
THE SHUTTER IS A REMADE PROTOTYPE FROM KODAK CHEVRON CAMERA WITH ITS RECIPROCATING LEAF SHUTTER DESIGN. INTERNAL UNAVOIDED GEAR GAPS ARE "FILLED" WITH MAGNECTIC FORCE BUILT IN TO PARTS.
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