Start (SLR)

The Start is a SLR camera body made by KMZ.

The Start cameras have an own type of lens mount, the Start bayonet, and a fast focal plane shutter made of cloth. The shutter has a wide range of speeds from 1 to 1/1000 sec. , with flash synchronized speed 1/30 sec. . The aperture release lever of the mounted lens is pressed together with the shutter release, a conception similar to that of some old Exakta lenses on Exa and Exakta cameras. The viewfinder screen has a dual prism rangefinder in the central area. The finder's pentaprism is removable.

Some are lettered in roman italics, Start, some in cyrillic, Старт.

source

• Start on rus-camera.com
• Start on Sovietcams.com
• Start User Guide on zenit.istra.ru (Russian)