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Revision as of 09:11, 14 November 2007
Produced by the KMZ factory in Krasnogorsk, Russia, the Zorki 4 was possibly the most popular of all Zorki cameras, with 1,715,677 cameras made. The Zorki 4 was also the first of the Zorki cameras to be exported in large numbers to the west.
When the Zorki 4 rangefinder was introduced in 1956, its contemporaries included the Zorki S, Zorki 2S, FED 2b, Leica M3 (introduced two years before), Leica IIIg, Nikon S2, Canon VT, Canon L1. The Zorki 4's production run outlasted all of them. When it morphed into the Zorki 4K by 1973, its contemporaries included the FED 4b, Leica M4 and M5, Nikon F2, and Canon F-1 and Canon Canonet QL 17 GIII.
The Zorki 4 is basically a Zorki 3S with a self-timer. It retained all of the features and strong points of the 3S. The early bodies have vulcanite body covering, engraved shutter speeds, and strap lugs. Later bodies have fabric covering and the shutter speeds (1/60 and 1/30 instead of 1/50 and 1/25) are silk-screened. By the mid-sixties, the strap lugs had disappeared.
Operation
As with other Soviet-era rangefinders, the shutter speed selector rotates when the shutter is released, and should not be changed until after the shutter has been cocked. If you change the shutter speed without cocking the shutter first, the setting pin can be broken when you advance the film and cock the shutter.
Links
General links
- Zorki 4 and Zorki 4K in the Antique Russian Camera website by Valdis
- Russian Camera Collection, a website by Stephen Rothery (includes all Zorkis and the Mir)
- Zorki 4K from Roland Givan's site
- Zorki 3, 4, 4K and Mir at Tigers Lair
- Zorki 4 in Matt Denton's photography site
- Zorki 4 and Zorki 4K in Alfred Klomp's Camera Page
- Zorki 4 in the Living Image Camera Museum
- Zorki history page from Rangefinder Cameras of the Soviet Era, a website by Jim Blazik (includes beautifully restored and modified examples)
- Zorki cameras in Nathan Dayton's Communist Cameras website
- Zorki 4K at Photoethnography by Karen Nakamura
- Zorki rangefinder cameras, a text only review at Buggrit Online
- Zorki 4 and it use at www.collection-appareils.fr
- Zorki section at Retrography.com by Simon Simonsen, Denmark
Repair notes
Documentation and manuals
There is a manual for the Zorki 4K in the Russian Camera Collection website.
There is a Zorki 4 manual in Mark Tharp's website at the following address: www.fortunecity.com/marina/marine/569/rusrngfdrs/zorki4.html NB: as of June 2006, the hosting service was degrading this web page with the very worst kind of pop-up advertising: fake spyware/virus alerts and offers to "protect" the viewer's computer by installing a trojan. (See this for information about such deception.) As usual, all of this is Windows-specific. If you must use a Windows computer for browsing this site, do so with extreme caution, do not believe any unfamiliar alert that you read, and run a known spyware program on your computer (certainly not anything pushed by any advert that you have just seen) immediately afterward. Unfortunately, copies at web.archive.org do not come with graphics.
- Russian Zorki 4a user manual at www.collection-appareils.fr
- French Zorki 4K user manual at www.collection-appareils.fr
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