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Zenit-E camera was a Russian (Soviet) SLR camera, made from 1965 to 1968. The body was equipped with M42 screw mount. The camera is solid, sturdy, everything is reduced to the essential and there is no space for fancy but expensive functions or accessories. Shutter speeds ranges between 1/30s and 1/500s plus a B time. A self timer is also present, with a delay of about 10-15 seconds. The camera was equipped with a selenium-cell lightmeter, which provided a quite accurate reading and was easy to use, basing the choice for aperture and speed on the calculator, placed on the left side of the top of the body. The lightmeter itself is placed above the lens mount. The M42 mount offers the chance to use a very wide range of very valid lenses. The classic lens is the very good Helios-44 58mm f/2, which requires a little time to be fully mastered but that gives you wonderful pics. The camera is very good, heavy and tough, as you are allowed to expect from a Soviet one. I do really like it and I suggest everyone wanting to learn and practice the theory of photography to get one of these "full manual" cameras. Considering the age of the camera, it's in a really wonderful condition.Vollständige Rezension lesen
when the hiking gets ruggied i need a basic slr that can take the knocks (cant include pics as just serviced it. and have just took a couple landscape shots.working well!
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The Zenith E body is in excellent condition and works great. Even the meter works.
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Solid build quality and a lovely helios lens. Small line in viewfinder but a pleasure to shoot with for a retromaniac like me!
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QUANTITY BEFORE QUALITY, KMZ made the most/not best cameras. i LIKE zenits because they are such pigs no two the same. ZENIT E...their is a MISUNDERSTANDING that they are INDESTRUCTABLE as a result they get dropped more than there fair share. COMMON FAULTS * meter working intermittantly and or inaccuratly thats the cell wearing out ,* shutter curtain going loose thats the glue giving up making a very difficault repair.* internal levers screws posts and springs breaking or geting out of place.* viewfinder prism tend to get a irremovable line down the center of the image due to deteriating foam eating the mirror surfaces.. .ITS HEAVY 99% mechanical camera ,when dropped it really gives the internals a jolt, when running for a bus they can dish out some spectacular bruses.. .METERING is a matter of LUCK, the electric bit is a (selienium)solar cell 2 wires and a coil needle thing...it basically SOMETIMES tells you ROUGTHLY how much light is in the room when your looking at the top of the camera and NOT through the viewfinder at what you would HOPE to get a picture of, and thats it,you have to do the aligning and reading the dial on the top to guide your apature and speed settings once the circle is over the needle blah provided you set the asa ring when loading(lets you choose 65 130 250or 500 when the film i buy is 200 400 800 &1600 HELPFUL) .. good thing is you will never have to buy a battery or dig out a swolen leaky one.working out the meter TAKES SO LONG CLOUDS MOVE FASTER, better to learn to GESTIMATE by eye the light and KNOW YOUR FILM, SPONTANIOUS NOT ..also like to understand this has no dx coding reader or window in the back door, supprised?have left the camera sitting for months with film in with no idea what film (ttl model has a battery powerd internal meter and a rubbish battery cover DOH ).. .ACCURACY LOL as it relys on springs and cogs friction has an effect on the shutter speeds making them VARIES from camera to camera..its a basic design so not many speeds the slowest it besides bulb is 30 and the fastest is 500 which is POOR compaired to other manufacturors so you will probably need fast film and ask your subjects NOT TO MOVE too fast , despite the heavy body they still get MIRROR SHAKE (weight of the moving mirror shaking camera as the picture is taken) FOCUSING is a art (polite) with these cameras there is no split circle no d.o.f preview, the lens has to be full manual (closeing the lens yourself as you go to take picture) the prisms tend to be small and and therefore dim.(the em model closes the lens automatically as you press shutter also has frenzel screen to make focusing slightly easyer) .......the stock HELIOS44m lens makes excellent portraits the focus tends to be stiff allthough a friend had one that was rediculously loose, if using telephoto lens remember light meter doesnt know about it. I CAN GAURENTEE THAT YOU WILL HAVE SOME TERRIBLE PHOTOS OUT OF THIS CAMERA, but it looks nice and is nice to hold, its a good camera to learn about photography the hard way ,like riding a really heavy bicycle, for great CREATIVE pictures i REALLY RECOMMEND CANON 500N costs about the same £5 for a scruffy one, i shocked myself at the results really easy to use and has a lot more toys ,multi exposure, built in flash,bright vewfinder and more.with adapter it can even take a helios lens(only got it because i was given a canon mount lens) WISH I HAD CANON WHEN AT COLLEGE AND UNI WISH I HAD CANON WHEN AT COLLEVollständige Rezension lesen
The ZENIT-E was first produced in 1965 at the Krasnogorsk factory, or KMZ, (known as the Tomb because of the trapezoidal symbol), just outside Moscow. Although it had a selenium light meter, (uncoupled), it was a fully manual camera, with the flash shoe an extra that fits over the view-finder. Like its fore-runner the rangefinder ZORKI, some models came with a 39mm screw thread,or LEICA, lens mount, while others had the 42mm or PENTAX mount, which became the norm over the next 20 years. As a manual camera it requires rather more involvement from the user than the automatic & digital cameras of today, because one has to set the aperture & shutter speed. With a small aperture it can be difficult to focus accurately, & the Helios 44 lens has a 'focusing ring' allowing one to set the aperture and then open it wide to focus before returning it to the desired stop to take the picture. The focusing ring was an improvement on the Industar 50-2 lens which also came on some of the early models. Production continued until 1982 with several different body finishes & other modifcations and a wide range of lenses, with some cameras made in Minsk. Over 3 million were made! So why would anyone want a heavy great lump, built 'like a tank' with its 'beautifully ugly' black leather case today? For myself it's because of the fact that if I can take a good picture with my ZENIT then I'm still in touch with the very basics of photography, and that helps in several ways when using my equally beloved digital camera. I've bought myself a couple of spares so that I'll still be able to use an iconic camera for years to come. If you love photography treat yourself to ZENIT-E!Vollständige Rezension lesen
The Zenit E is a cheap way to learn about 35mm photography. The lenses and other accessories are available at low prices. Why not try being a real photographer who thinks for yourself? The Zenit E will make you think because it leaves everything up to you. The Zenit E is the height of 1970s Soviet photography which means it was decades behind the Germans and Japanese but it was built to last, and last, and last which is why so many are still around now. Everything on it is mechanical - the shutter, the self-timer, the meter - and there are no batteries to run out or corrode. Unlike later models such as the EM, the TTL, the 11 and 12, the Zenit E and the B (which is similar but lacks the light meter) use manual lenses. After focussing, you must turn a ring on the lens to close the aperture. If you forget you will massively over-expose. One wasted film will probably teach you to remember - set speed, set aperture, focus, CLOSE DOWN LENS, and shoot. Because you have to do everything for yourself, the Zenit E is a good camera to learn the basics of film photography. There are no computer aids, no hints, no automatic functions. If you take a good picture it will have been all your own work.Vollständige Rezension lesen
The Zenit E Well.. What a bargain! Well I got mine for £25, and have enjoyed every minute of it. I enjoy Lomography and found this was a great camera to use. The grainy but crisp shots it can produce are life changing (Best results with Kodak ultramax 400 film). Sure, it isn't digital with a million different features, but, Fact is.. You've got an SLR for £20.
My 15 yr old daughter is into photography and started waxing lyrical about the Russian cameras of old. Having had a 1980 Olympic version of this camera back in the day as my first SLR I decided to find one on here to get her for a surprise. In it came and it all came flooding back about how to set the picture up, read the light meter, set the speed, set the apeture all manually beore you go click. Brilliant I was 15 again myself. My daughter loves it too, she still loves her DSLR, but really enjoys the Zenit E for a more artsy retro feel. The pictures are good and for a 30 year old camera you can't praise it any more than that.