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The Mir ('World' or 'Peace' in Russian) is a 35 mm rangefinder camera made by KMZ in Krasnagorsk, near Moscow from 1959 to 1961. It is a simplified version of the Zorki 4, lacking the slow shutter speed mechanism (it also lacks the fastest speed of 1/1000 second). Whereas the Zorki 4 was exported, the Mir was only sold within the Soviet Union.[1] It is curious that this camera was produced for so few years, whereas the Zorki 4 was made between 1956 and 1973. The lens mount is a Leica 39 mm screw thread, so a very wide range of lenses are available for the camera.


Specifications

  • Type: 35 mm rangefinder camera
  • Format: 24x36 mm on standard 135 cassette film
  • Manufacturer: KMZ
  • Years of production: 1959-61
  • Number produced: Est. 160 000
  • Standard lenses[2]:
    • Industar-50 1:3.5 F=5 cm
    • Industar-26M 1:2.8 F=5 cm
  • Shutter:
    • Cloth focal-plane shutter. 1/30 - 1/500 second, plus B.
    • Cable release socket in shutter release button.
    • Flash synchronisation by PC socket on the front of the top plate. Variable synchronisation delay (0 - 25 ms) by dial around the shutter speed control.
    • Delayed action (self-timer) lever on the front of the camera body.
  • Viewfinder: Large reverse-galilean viewfinder. Dioptric adjustment by lever beside the rewind knob.
  • Focusing: Coupled rangefinder with double image in the viewfinder. Rangefinder baseline approx. 45 mm.
  • Other features:
    • Film advance by winding knob, with frame counter on top of the knob.
    • Film release for rewind is a collar around the shutter release.
    • Cold shoe on the top plate.
    • 3/8-inch tripod bush.
  • Dimensions (width x depth x height):
  • Weight:


Notes

  1. Nathan Dayton's 'Communist Cameras' site
  2. These are the only standard lenses listed in the user's manual reproduced (in Russian) at the KMZ archive site. Owners have reported cameras with other lenses such as the rigid I-22, mounted on an extension tube to give correct film register, or the Jupiter-8, as on the example pictured here.


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Zorki cameras
FED-Zorki | 1 | S | 2 | 2-C (S) | 3 | 3M | 3S | 4 | 4K | Mir | 5 | 6 | 10/11 | 12 | 35M