Camera Talk

here is the latest from Petapixel

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

might be interesting to watch that space.

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

Zeica

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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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.

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.

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.

"... 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?

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.

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