Zorki

At the end of World War II, the KMZ factory in Krasnogorsk, Russia, began producing cameras. They started in 1946 with the Moskva line, but in 1948 - with the FED factory in Ukraine still not full production - they started producing FED cameras. At first they were marked "FED" with a KMZ logo, and then later they were known marked "FED-Zorki", but by 1949 they had made some design changes and thus began the Zorki line of rangefinder cameras (another rangefinder made by KMZ unrelated to the Zorki line was the Drug).

Screw-mount Rangefinders

Zorki 4, by brian395 (Image rights)

• FED-Zorki
• MIR
• Zorki 1
• Zorki S (same as Zorki C)
• Zorki 2
• Zorki 2S (same as Zorki 2C)
• Zorki 3
• Zorki 35M (prototype)
• Zorki 3M
• Zorki 3S (same as Zorki 3C)
• Zorki 4
• Zorki 4K
• Zorki 5
• Zorki 6

Fixed-lens Rangefinders

• Zorki 10
• Zorki 11
• Zorki 12

Bibliography

• Princelle, Jean-Loup. The Authentic Guide to Russian and Soviet Cameras. Hove Foto Books, 2nd edition, 1995. 200 pages. ISBN 1874031630.

Links

• FED Zorki Survival Site Repair and Adjustment of FED and Zorki
• Zorkis and FED repair notes
• A german Zorki page

In English:

• Zorki section at Retrography.com by Simon Simonsen, Denmark

In French:

• Zorki pages on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand