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Russian and Soviet Cameras (1840-1991) Catalogue (Complete Book)

Created by Vlad on 2/21/2008 3:15:32 PM
Last Edited by Vlad on 2/21/2008 3:16:54 PM  
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Vladislav Kern
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Posted - Feb 21 2008 :  3:33:04 PM  Show Profile  Visit Vlad's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Hehehe.. in this book it says mfg. by LOMO for Smena M..

Vladislav Kern
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Posted - Feb 21 2008 :  3:39:16 PM  Show Profile  Visit Vlad's Homepage  Reply with Quote
And it mentions a SECOND Zenit 11 that was not produced... anyone knows of it? And an interesting Zenit-ISM by BelOMO... these 2 are news for me, just thought I'd mention

Also very useful appendixes with production volumes for FEDs and Zorkis...

Vlad
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Juhani Halmeenmaki
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Posted - Feb 21 2008 :  11:27:00 PM  Show Profile  Visit cedricfan's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Yes. lots of faults and missing data. But it was the first FSU-camera book in english, Princelle is two years later. And ISM = 15M

Smena rules
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Aidas Pikiotas
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Posted - Feb 22 2008 :  12:17:19 AM  Show Profile  Visit AidasCams's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Vlad

And it mentions a SECOND Zenit 11 that was not produced... anyone knows of it? And an interesting Zenit-ISM by BelOMO... these 2 are news for me, just thought I'd mention

Also very useful appendixes with production volumes for FEDs and Zorkis...

Vlad



... I was lucky to hold Zenit-11 (Zenit-4 type) in my very own hands ...
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Aidas Pikiotas
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Posted - Feb 22 2008 :  12:22:16 AM  Show Profile  Visit AidasCams's Homepage  Reply with Quote
All these mistakes are made by compiler, I guess. While having small book by Ryshkov in Russian, I can to synchronize the data indeed ...
BTW this catalogue in english was my very first purchase on eBay !


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Aidas
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Zoom
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Posted - Feb 22 2008 :  07:27:15 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Vlad

And it mentions a SECOND Zenit 11 that was not produced... anyone knows of it?


Info:
http://www.zenitcamera.com/archive/zenit-4/index.html#zenit-11
Manual:
http://www.zenitcamera.com/mans/zenit-11-4/zenit-11.html

P.S. The disgusting book... :( TOO MANY ERRORS. The incredible quantity of errors... It is impossible to Yury Ryshkov... I don't believe that he was an author...

Edited by - Zoom on Feb 22 2008 07:43:36 AM
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Michel
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Posted - Feb 22 2008 :  09:29:40 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
"disgusting book" !!!!
What a compliment…

Nevertheless, I learn that the Kiev II has a "…bayonet type Leica lens"!
I WANT this KievII.

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Michel.
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BERRY alain
mermoz37
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Posted - Feb 22 2008 :  10:08:16 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
here are 3 differents Zenit 11 (2 from KMZ and 1 from Belomo)

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Vladislav Kern
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Posted - Feb 22 2008 :  10:44:58 AM  Show Profile  Visit Vlad's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Thanks Alain, yes these are regular Zenit-11s.. I was I guess asking about this one:



Thanks for the link Zoom! Very interesting. I still have to explore your site in detail, it's just too big

Vlad.
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Vladislav Kern
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Posted - Feb 22 2008 :  10:47:01 AM  Show Profile  Visit Vlad's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Michel... hehehe.. yes this is book is quite outdated, but I found it on my hard drive (Aidas, I think I just found it on the Russian RFF site), so I decided to upload it since it was not in catalog already.. just for archiving purposes.

Vlad
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Jacques M.
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Posted - Feb 22 2008 :  11:39:17 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote

Too much errors, perhaps.
But there are some very interestings things too.
For example, about Fed 1s. It is said in the appendix 2 that no camera can be found between 182292 and 210024. In fact, I never saw any Fed 1 after 184000 and before 209000 if we except the Red Flags of course.
Not so bad...
Right to say that some lines after, he speaks about unnumbered 1 after #540000. A pity he didn't have a look at the back part of the cover...

Amitiés. Jacques.
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BERRY alain
mermoz37
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Posted - Feb 22 2008 :  11:50:38 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
zenit 11 (looked like zenit 4) was sold by Boris , 3/4 years ago in Arsenal (lot of money, las !)
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Vladislav Kern
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Posted - Feb 22 2008 :  11:54:18 AM  Show Profile  Visit Vlad's Homepage  Reply with Quote
that's expected for a non-production model, especially by Boris ..
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Michel
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Posted - Feb 22 2008 :  12:55:42 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi Vlad,

Please do'nt take it hard…
This book is great, for non russian speaking people and many thanks for making it available for all of us !

Thanks again.

Regards,
Michel.
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Vladislav Kern
Vlad
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Posted - Feb 22 2008 :  1:07:15 PM  Show Profile  Visit Vlad's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Michel, I'm not.. I know there were a lot of inacuracies, but I still had to post it just to have it here

Vlad
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Jacques M.
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Posted - Sep 27 2008 :  05:38:26 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote

Hello!
A very interesting thing in this book about the numberings used by Fed.
It is said in appendix 3 that the Fed 2-s were engraved with ordinal numbers till c. 1100000 in 1961, the next ones have cipher engravings (probably because of the first Fed 3-s which are numbered in the same range, I suppose).
So, does anybody know which ciphers were used by the factory? It would be essential to establish a relation between serial number and year of production...

Amitiés. Jacques.

Edited by - Jacques M. on Sep 27 2008 05:39:43 AM
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