Krasnogorsky Zavod to open again.....a new Zenit is on the way

[Martolod]

here is the latest from Petapixel

http://petapixel.com/2016/02/12/russian ... ca-luxury/

might be interesting to watch that space.

[PFMcFarland]

It would be so nice to have a Zenit where everything works. But I'm not about to pay a Leica price for one.

PF

[LarryD]

Zeica

[Philip]

Ha!
. . . Or maybe Zuleika, and all will fall in love with it.


The Leica slr itself famously failed in the market. I would have expected the rangefinder FED to resurrected as a Leica-like camera, not an slr. Just the same, I did like my old Zenit E in the late 1970s, even though its shutter collapsed unrepairably after about a year. Out of nostalgia (and about ten dollars) I bought a working one about five years ago. I've used it only a couple of times since then.


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[LarryD]

This one is pushing 45+ years old and they got the Brassing part down. I use it every now and then.
Zenit EM-1 by Larry D, on Flickr

I was thinking of maybe they would revive the Zorkie name.

[Captain Slack]

The can already see the con artists on eBay repainting the older Zenit's as one of these new one's and charging several hundred dollars.

[Julio1fer]

I still sigh for the Zenit 3M with Helios-44, my first SLR combo, sold many years ago in a moment of weakness. Maybe cheap but sturdy, simple, excellent optics and never once let me down in 15 years without a single CLA.

I hope that KZ gets on its feet again.

[Bennybee]

"... It would be so nice to have a Zenit where everything works... (PF) "
But that wouldn't be a Zenit then, would it? Where's the fun in that?

[Dustin McAmera]

The early Zenits were pretty damn good. My Zenit 3 (no M) is one of my favourites. It has an Industar-50 50/3.5, a Mir-1 37/2.8 and a gigantic Helios 40 85/1.5. That said, I don't think anyone (except maybe a real Russian nationalist) wants a *luxury* camera called Zenith. The later cameras, left behind technologically and spoiled by cheap materials, have poisoned the name.

The first FED cameras were announced as 'Soviet Leicas', but I guess the Leica name didn't stand so much for exclusivity then.

[Martolod]

and i still loooooove my Photosnaiper Kit. best dammned 400mm lens i have.weighs a ton.but what Glass....or is it Class.