Zenit E
The Zenit E was a SLR camera body for M42 screw lenses. It was quite popular since it was priced moderately and it was offered under several other trademarks or brands (Kalimar, Revueflex, Prinzflex, Photokina, Spiraflex). It lacked a greater variety of shutter speeds.
It had a selenium meter which was placed above the lens mount. The meter was placed beside a two-slice analog computer. A ring in the meter was coupled to that calculator on which the film speed had to be preselected, and when the meter's needle matched the ring the calculator showed the correct shutter-speed/aperture combinations.
Her the data of the Version "Prinzflex 500E"
- Type: SLR body
- Manufacturer: Zenit
- Lens mount: M42 screw mount without aperture release shifter
- Shutter: focal plane textile shutter, speeds 1/30 up to 1/500 sec., switchable to flash synchro-mode
- Viewfinder: pentaprism finder, little round diopter correction lens mountable
- film advance: film advance lever, immersible rewind knob
- Dimensions:137×92×53 mm
- Self-timer: with own release button and 15 sec. delay-time
