Russian and Soviet Cameras (1840-1991) Catalogue

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Topic author: Vlad

Posted on: 20080221153304

Hehehe.. in this book it says mfg. by LOMO for Smena M.. [:)]

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Reply author: Vlad

Replied on: 20080221153916

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

Reply author: cedricfan

Replied on: 20080221232700

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

Reply author: AidasCams

Replied on: 20080222001719

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="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
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... I was lucky to hold Zenit-11 (Zenit-4 type) in my very own hands ... [:p]

Reply author: AidasCams

Replied on: 20080222002216

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 ! [:D]

Best Regards,
Aidas

Reply author: Zoom

Replied on: 20080222072715

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Vlad
 And it mentions a SECOND Zenit 11 that was not produced... anyone knows of it?
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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...

Reply author: Michel

Replied on: 20080222092940

"disgusting book" !!!!
What a compliment…

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

Regards,
Michel.

Reply author: mermoz37

Replied on: 20080222100816

here are 3 differents Zenit 11 (2 from KMZ and 1 from Belomo)

http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/IMG_3671.jpg

Reply author: Vlad

Replied on: 20080222104458

Thanks Alain, yes these are regular Zenit-11s.. I was I guess asking about this one:

http://www.zenitcamera.com/archive/zenit-4/zenit-11-s.jpg

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

Vlad.

Reply author: Vlad

Replied on: 20080222104701

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

Reply author: Jacques M.

Replied on: 20080222113917

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.

Reply author: mermoz37

Replied on: 20080222115038

zenit 11 (looked like zenit 4) was sold by Boris , 3/4 years ago in Arsenal (lot of money, las !)

Reply author: Vlad

Replied on: 20080222115418

that's expected for a non-production model, especially by Boris [:)]..

Reply author: Michel

Replied on: 20080222125542

Hi Vlad,

Please do'nt take it hard…[8D][8D]
This book is great, for non russian speaking people and many thanks for making it available for all of us !

Thanks again.

Regards,
Michel.[:)]

Reply author: Vlad

Replied on: 20080222130715

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

Reply author: Jacques M.

Replied on: 20080927053826

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.