First atempt to built a professinal and advanved amateur movie camera. KMZ did already made military 35mm movie cameras like AKS-1 and AKS-4 copies of Bell&Howell Eyemo and Arriflex respectively Krasnogorsk 1 came with three interchangeable lenses MIR-11 (2.2/12.5mm), VEGA-7 (2/20mm), VEGA-9(2.1/50mm), spring driven mechanics with variable speeds: 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 48 frame/sec Its mechanics is a mized of solutions of the Bell&Howell Filmo 70 and Paillard Bolex H16 reflex having the better of them and adding a through the lens exposure meter.
Subsequent models vary technically only on objectives which are special zoom ones.
This first model although requires specially owner pre- loaded rafid change cassetes as shown in the last picture, The shown model dates from 1968 but its introduction dates from 1965.