It is camera build from steel that use to make bullet which penetrate American armoured tank. Soviet always have some photographer in their regimen in both Cold War and world war. If the infantry doesn’t have a bullet to fire. This is their said improvised bullet which can do intracranial bleeding and fracture to bone. This thing is not toy. It is weapon for photojounorlist in the field!
I bought a Zenit 12xp like a week ago and my model was manufactured in 1989. On my Model the knob for ISO is labeled with ISO (the range is from 25 to 400) and not the ASA as yours. How is this possible? I thought they would be the same. Great video btw :D
Difficult to know for sure, I recently talked with a woman from Russia who was telling me that most of the cameras we have here were for export market only. Something I was previously unaware of. I think it is fair to say that there is a lot of undocumented information about these cameras.
Well I was researching something about this, since im as puzzled as y'all, and I found something Now it definitely might not be true, this is just an assumption based on what I found I don't think it's about the import/export, could be, but I think it has to do about the year. My own Zenit 12xp is export but instead of Din, ASA or ISO, it says: "ГОСТ/ASA". Basically, Gost was the Russian measurement before ISO came around in 1986, because before that, everyone had their own (din, asa gost and Schneider or whatever it was). And I think they where trying to merge them before implementing ISO... Well, idk, but I know there was a lot of frequent changes in the measurements around 86 And honestly knowing Russian production, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a bunch of miss matched cameras going around with different measurements Mine's from 86, so perhaps the export ones before 86 had ASA and GOST, and after it had ISO Idk, that's my assumption, but it might be a lot of bullshit, correct me if you know
I have a few Leica M cameras, film and digital, Hasselblads, Nikons, Pentax 67, Field cameras, etc, and I also have a Zenit 11, even more basic than yours. I love it. It is so simplified and focused on photography. If you don't have the necessary knowledge about the basics of photography or the operation of the camera, like it was once the norm, forget it, you won't be able to use one of these for making photographs. These are just tanks, an dthe lens is quite good too.
KMZ was and is closely connected with the military. It's one of the primary optics manufacturers in Russia. But that's not the reason for Zenits' sturdiness. All soviet SLRs and RFs were like that. Kievs, FEDs, Zorkis. The later Zenits made after the fall were still bricks, even though they're made out of plastic.
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50 years ago I learnt photo with a zenit EM until the shutter died. Good souvenirs and good pictures.
I am sorry to hear the shutter died on yours. I fully agree the make good souvenirs there is something special about their functional design.
It is camera build from steel that use to make bullet which penetrate American armoured tank.
Soviet always have some photographer in their regimen in both Cold War and world war.
If the infantry doesn’t have a bullet to fire. This is their said improvised bullet which can do intracranial bleeding and fracture to bone.
This thing is not toy. It is weapon for photojounorlist in the field!
I bought a Zenit 12xp like a week ago and my model was manufactured in 1989. On my Model the knob for ISO is labeled with ISO (the range is from 25 to 400) and not the ASA as yours. How is this possible? I thought they would be the same. Great video btw :D
Difficult to know for sure, I recently talked with a woman from Russia who was telling me that most of the cameras we have here were for export market only. Something I was previously unaware of. I think it is fair to say that there is a lot of undocumented information about these cameras.
@@projectsoffolly ah interesting! Thank you for answering :)
Mine too! And even more confusing is that it has clicks under 24 and over 400 lol. I have no idea how that works
Well I was researching something about this, since im as puzzled as y'all, and I found something
Now it definitely might not be true, this is just an assumption based on what I found
I don't think it's about the import/export, could be, but I think it has to do about the year.
My own Zenit 12xp is export but instead of Din, ASA or ISO, it says: "ГОСТ/ASA".
Basically, Gost was the Russian measurement before ISO came around in 1986, because before that, everyone had their own (din, asa gost and Schneider or whatever it was). And I think they where trying to merge them before implementing ISO... Well, idk, but I know there was a lot of frequent changes in the measurements around 86
And honestly knowing Russian production, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a bunch of miss matched cameras going around with different measurements
Mine's from 86, so perhaps the export ones before 86 had ASA and GOST, and after it had ISO
Idk, that's my assumption, but it might be a lot of bullshit, correct me if you know
I have a few Leica M cameras, film and digital, Hasselblads, Nikons, Pentax 67, Field cameras, etc, and I also have a Zenit 11, even more basic than yours. I love it. It is so simplified and focused on photography. If you don't have the necessary knowledge about the basics of photography or the operation of the camera, like it was once the norm, forget it, you won't be able to use one of these for making photographs. These are just tanks, an dthe lens is quite good too.
KMZ was and is closely connected with the military. It's one of the primary optics manufacturers in Russia. But that's not the reason for Zenits' sturdiness. All soviet SLRs and RFs were like that. Kievs, FEDs, Zorkis. The later Zenits made after the fall were still bricks, even though they're made out of plastic.