Russian and Soviet Cameras (1840-1991) Catalogue

Hehehe.. in this book it says mfg. by LOMO for Smena M..

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

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

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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 ...

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 !


Best Regards,
Aidas

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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...

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

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

Regards,
Michel.

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

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



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

Vlad.

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 yes this is book is quite outdated, but I found it on my hard drive (Aidas, I think I just found it on the Russian RFF site), so I decided to upload it since it was not in catalog already..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

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...

Amitiйs. Jacques.

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

that's expected for a non-production model, especially by Boris ..

Hi Vlad,

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

Thanks again.

Regards,
Michel.

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

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...

Amitiйs. Jacques.