The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: Zenit-E

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A Helios-44 lens on a Zenit-E camera photographed with a Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens on an extension tube with a Canon EOS40D. There was a bit of post-processing to end up with this result, and the photograph has become quite a small file.

Photographed with a Nikon Nikkor-S Auto 35mm f/2.8 lens mounted on a TelePlus MC7 2X Tele-Macro Converter on a Canon EOS 30D camera.

The first Zenit-E models were produced in the KMZ plant in 1965. Over 8 million were manufactured. The Kodak Instamatic 204 was made in the UK between 1966 and 1968. Of course it was cheaper than the Soviet Zenit, but the results were often terrible. The Zenit was a single-lens reflex camera based on the Zorki rangefinder body. The Zorki line of rangefinder cameras was originally a direct Leica copy. Therefore, Zenit = Leica. (Maybe). The Zenit pentaprism is small, thus what you see through the viewfinder is only about two-thirds of what will be recorded on the film. Nonetheless it is vastly superior to a point-and-shoot camera with film in a cartridge lacking a proper pressure plate to keep it flat and even. Many Zenit cameras were supplied with a Helios-44 lens of 58mm focal length and a maximum aperture of f/2. This lens was a Soviet copy of the Carl Zeiss Biotar lens and had distinctive bokeh characteristics. So Helios = Zeiss. (Possibly). Photograph made with a Nikon D700 + a Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens.

Maybe it is time to grow something in the old Zenit-E. Photographed with a Canon EOS 40D + EF 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 lens.

Zenit-E with a bit torn out of an election leaflet showing acolytes gazing attentively at their Leader (Leader is out of picture) and photographed with a Canon EOS 30D and a Helios-44 58mm f/2 lens on an extension tube.

Back of an open Zenit-E photographed with a Canon EOS 30D and a Helios-44 58mm f/2 lens on an extension tube.

A close-up of a Zenit-E made with a Helios-44 58mm f/2 lens on a Canon EOS 30D camera. The lens which you can see a part of attached to the Zenit is a Meyer Optik Orestegor 200mm f/4.

A photograph of the Zenith E with a Meyer Optik Orestegor 200mm f/4 lens taken with a Canon EOS 30D camera and a Helios 44 f/2 58mm lens which was originally supplied with the Zenith in the picture.

One of the early preset versions with a 49mm filter ring. Photographed with an AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D lens on a Nikon D2Xs. The 42mm screw mount was introduced in 1947 with the Zeiss Ikon Contax S 35mm SLR. Other manufacturers adopted it: Praktica, Pentax, Zenit. But bayonet mounts are better for changing lenses, and M42 was eclipsed. With some makes of digital SLR cameras, it is possible to use the M42 lenses via an adapter ring. Canon and Pentax are probably the most suitable for old M42 lenses.

Photographed with a Canon EOS 30D with a Helios-44 58mm f/2 lens on an Aico extension tube.