Zenit first type

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 ...

Only dead fish follow the stream ...

http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/2692018_44875370872_ef2d466075_o.jpg


http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/2692018_31052221968_e712ec2ced_o.jpg



Only dead fish follow the stream ...

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?

ah, now I see the photo. No idea. Perhaps the top from Zenit on Zenit-S ?

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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?

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no ... is 8 !!! 589889
I can not determine what produced this.

the Industar 22 lens has the serial number 546483

Only dead fish follow the stream ...

no, this must be not Zenit-S. Rather the missing first digit on a Zenit from 1955.

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Originally posted by rkaipov

ah, now I see the photo. No idea. Perhaps the top from Zenit on Zenit-S ?

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I thought about this, but Zenit S (C) always has seven or eight digits for the serial number.

Only dead fish follow the stream ...

Pehaps a mistake in engraveing

Regads

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Originally posted by Luiz Paracampo

Pehaps a mistake in engraveing

Regads

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thanks a lot Luiz ...I think I'll buy it

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Only dead fish follow the stream ...

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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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

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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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Only dead fish follow the stream ...

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.