Mir
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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.
image by Süleyman Demir (Image rights) |
image by Süleyman Demir (Image rights) |
image by Süleyman Demir (Image rights) |
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
- ↑ Nathan Dayton's 'Communist Cameras' site
- ↑ 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.
Links
- Zorki 4 Manual
- Russian Camera Collection (includes all Zorkis and the MIR)
- Zorki Rangefinder Cameras
- Rangefinder Cameras of the Soviet Era (includes beautifully restored and modifies examples)
- The Other Martin Taylor's review of the MIR
- Zorki 4, all models in Wayne Cornell's photography site
- Mir, Mir on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand
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FED-Zorki | 1 | S | 2 | 2-C (S) | 3 | 3M | 3S | 4 | 4K | Mir | 5 | 6 | 10/11 | 12 | 35M |