Classificator for Start

Davide! Very interesting, it IS 2A2... even the button on the back is still there.. how odd! I will update the classificator with new date range.

Zhang: thanks for that info.. I think here I'll just be sticking to camera bodies only at this point...

Vlad

Vlad,

Great job! But to be more precise, you should refer to year 1956 as the date of prototype Start (type 0). Below you will see a picture from Sovietskoe Foto magazine. issued in 1957 ...



Best Regards,
Aidas

Vlad,
I believe the substance covering the knobs of the earlier versions of Start is plexi-glass or clear plastic, not glass.

Regards, Bill

Thank you both for corrections, I will update the file tonight! Aidas thanks for cleaner photo of this early camera, so what the heck is this thing on front above the lens, anyone has any ideas?

Vlad.

I would guess it's a sliding button to release the locking mechanism for the lens or maybe the prism housing ?

Regards, Bill

Note the speed dial also coverd by a plexiglas viewer. This denotes a different form of changing speeds! And non rotating external dial!
Similar to Contax S, D?
LP

Good eye Luiz! I will add it to the file! Thanks!

Ok, here is the updated file once more.. if you guys see no other problems I will make a wiki entry with it.



Thanks!
Vlad

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Originally posted by Vlad

Zhang,

I've been looking but cannot find it.. I will go through images manually at some point but I need to do this at the server level.. will take me a bit.. but I do remember you posting these now, thanks at least it gives me an extra '58 model to compare..

Vlad

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Vlad,

Here I find some details on my 5800366 Start.

1. Screws on removable finder and trace of hand finishing.
2. No arrow on aperture nob, and dull chrome plating. Lens s/n 0003929.
3. No'Made in USSR'.

At:
http://www.ussrphoto.com/Wiki/default.asp?WikiCatID=66&ParentID=4&ContentID=923&Item=Rio+de+Janeiro+1960+Cameras

is a demonstrative leaflet of Start camera.
All cameras came with a transient ring M39x1 made to recieve Zenit lenses.
Original accessories: -Pentaprism, -Hood finder, -An special extension rings set composed of two adapters and four Zenit rings - An extra and difficult to find pentaprism with expoure meter, inherited from "Iskra", as the second version of "Kristall-2".

Hi,

some comments about my Start #5800867:

1. The particular camera comes with black Helios-44 lens (#0057339);
2. Camera comes with already new GOST shutter settings (!);
3. Different design of rewind knob (see picture below);
4. Still no black arrow engraved beside rewind knob (see same picture).

The particular camera was compared with another early Start #5902313, which is type 1B2 according to Vlad's classificator. My Start 1958 should be type 1B1, but as said above it has new GOST already ...






Best Regards,
Aidas