AKS-1 AERIAL MOVIE CAMERA HELP

Hello all,
I'm new to this forum and a new owner of a soviet ww2 aks-1 35 mm movie camera like the one posted here...

http://www.ussrphoto.com/wiki/default.asp?WikiCatID=61&ParentID=58&ContentID=1052

Could anyone here help me answer some questions about it? thank you/spasibo Dorian Motowylak

Love is a battlefield.

Welcome Dorian, I'm sure there are people here that can answer your questions, what are they?

Is yours aerial or regular AKS?

Cheers,
Vlad

Spasibo Vlad,
The man i bought it from in Kiev listed it as aerial. I need to post pics however, it looks just like the one listed here ( the link I used in original post ) However, I'm not sure the difference between aerial and regular. I'm very new to working this camera. ( I've never had a movie film camera before but I'm VERY excited to learn ) I am a WW2/BOB Soviet re-enactor and I got it to film some of the battles.

Thank you to you or anyone else who can give any information at all on this camera. Vash drug, Dorian Motowylak

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Originally posted by Vlad

Welcome Dorian, I'm sure there are people here that can answer your questions, what are they?

Is yours aerial or regular AKS?

Cheers,
Vlad

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Love is a battlefield.

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Originally posted by dorianmotow

Could anyone here help me answer some questions about it?

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Some information in Russian is there: http://www.zenitcamera.com/archive/aks/index.html

How to understand a camera serial numbers is there:
http://www.zenitcamera.com/qa/qa-serialnumbers.html
Shortly, AKS used this formula: 3YQNNN,
where 3 -- KMZ,
Y -- the last digit of year,
Q -- a quarter in this year,
NNN -- the sequence number.
(For example: 314042 = KMZ, 1951, 4th quarter, 42nd camera)

After getting into a bind, I am now having to sale this camera. I'm asking $450, it's all complete, please ask for pics or I'll post some later here when i have time.
Write to dorianmotow@yahoo.com if interested.

Love is a battlefield.

Boy does that look like a victor or b&h dr 16 mm camera, good copy

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