This is a Zorki 5 rangefinder camera made by Krasnogorskiy Mechanicheskiy Zavod (KMZ) in Krasnogorsk during the years of 1958 – 1959. This particular camera is an early and much less common variant with a red Zorki-5 logo engraved into the body, and a square rangefinder window. Later Zorki 5s had a…
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This is a KMZ Start Single Lens Reflex camera made by Krasnogorsk Mechanical Works (KMZ for short) in the former Soviet Union. This was the first Soviet made SLR aimed at professionals. Although it doesn’t look like it, the Start borrowed many design elements from the German made Ihagee Exakta SLR…
What is it? This is a Zorki 4 rangefinder made by Krasnogorsk Mechanical Factory (KMZ) in Moscow, Russia. The first Zorkis were built by KMZ in 1947 after the FED factory in Ukraine was damaged in WWII. These first Zorkis were near identical copies of the original FED rangefinder which itself was a…
