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luigi gesi schyter
Italy
88 Posts My Collection
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Posted - Sep 26 2018 : 01:04:19 AM
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Hi guys, it's my first topic.
I'm Luigi and I write from Italy
I have a problem and I would like your help.
A friend sells a Zenit 1 (first type) at a good price. I checked his serial number and I had many doubts and curiosity to understand. The camera has 6 numbers and the first two are 58 ... How is it possible?
Many thanks ...
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luigi gesi schyter
Italy
88 Posts My Collection
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rkaipov
Germany
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Posted - Sep 26 2018 : 06:12:21 AM
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Hi Luigi, is it perhaps 53 ? '3' on the Zenits from 1953 could be mixed up with '8', then in 1954 the serial number inscription became different, '3' looked very different from '8'. Do you have a photo? |
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rkaipov
Germany
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Posted - Sep 26 2018 : 06:18:16 AM
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ah, now I see the photo. No idea. Perhaps the top from Zenit on Zenit-S ? |
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luigi gesi schyter
Italy
88 Posts My Collection
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Posted - Sep 26 2018 : 06:21:50 AM
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quote: Originally posted by rkaipov
Hi Luigi, is it perhaps 53 ? '3' on the Zenits from 1953 could be mixed up with '8', then in 1954 the serial number inscription became different, '3' looked very different from '8'. Do you have a photo?
no ... is 8 !!! 589889 I can not determine what produced this.
the Industar 22 lens has the serial number 546483
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rkaipov
Germany
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Posted - Sep 26 2018 : 06:21:57 AM
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no, this must be not Zenit-S. Rather the missing first digit on a Zenit from 1955. |
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luigi gesi schyter
Italy
88 Posts My Collection
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Posted - Sep 26 2018 : 06:24:48 AM
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quote: Originally posted by rkaipov
ah, now I see the photo. No idea. Perhaps the top from Zenit on Zenit-S ?
I thought about this, but Zenit S (C) always has seven or eight digits for the serial number.
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Luiz Paracampo Luiz Paracampo
Brazil
2002 Posts My Collection
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Posted - Sep 27 2018 : 5:50:16 PM
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Pehaps a mistake in engraveing
Regads |
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luigi gesi schyter
Italy
88 Posts My Collection
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Posted - Sep 27 2018 : 5:52:47 PM
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quote: Originally posted by Luiz Paracampo
Pehaps a mistake in engraveing
Regads
thanks a lot Luiz ...I think I'll buy it
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Guido Studer Guido
Switzerland
362 Posts My Collection
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Posted - Sep 27 2018 : 6:58:28 PM
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Hi Luigi
Looks like a misengraveing for me too. It's a 1954 camera I think with an according lens. BTW: Wellcome to the forum!
Best wishes - Guido
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luigi gesi schyter
Italy
88 Posts My Collection
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Posted - Sep 28 2018 : 06:06:12 AM
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quote: Originally posted by Guido
Hi Luigi
Looks like a misengraveing for me too. It's a 1954 camera I think with an according lens. BTW: Wellcome to the forum!
Best wishes - Guido
Thanks so much Guido !! I am madly in love with Soviet cameras. I own too many ... but they are never enough!
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sean perry seany65
United Kingdom
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Posted - Dec 07 2018 : 2:38:10 PM
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Hello Luigi, welcome to the forum.
I owned a Zenit C for a short while. I quite liked it, I could have lived with the line down the middle of the viewfinder and got used to loading it from the bottom but the shutter broke twice, both times after firing it a few times so I thought it best to send it back.
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Edited by - seany65 on Dec 25 2018 8:10:27 PM |
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