Unusual Zorki 1 Soviet Leica clone rangefinder camera. Has anyone seen this ever?

[Cholentpot]

maybe it is as rare as he contends im by no means a zorki expert and I don't know if anyone replying to this thread is as much of an expert as the person on the website linked to earlier.
its too bad someone doesn't write him and ask for his expert opinion. ( or maybe the OP already did that and that's why he says there are only 2 that exist )..

what are all the websites the OP is saying these things? .

It's up on reddit for one, that's the whole internet.

 

[awty]

Yes. The Barnack is a terrible camera ergonomically!

Really? Compared to a Kiev?
The little Zorki 1 are a great little camera to use, the mechanics just dont work so well.

 

[George Mann]

Really? Compared to a Kiev?
The little Zorki 1 are a great little camera to use, the mechanics just dont work so well.

You missed the point of my sarcasm.

 

[removed account4]

It's up on reddit for one, that's the whole internet.

That's funny . I've been on the internet for nearly 30 years but I guess I haven't been on the whole internet. LOL

 

[Cholentpot]

That's funny . I've been on the internet for nearly 30 years but I guess I haven't been on the whole internet. LOL

I've been on the world wide web about as long as you. The whole internets is like somewhere and like if the plug is pulled we lose the interwebs. Looks what happened to facebook, I bet someone who has the internets on their computer deleted the shortcut and it took them hours to find it again.

 

[name]

You guys are going about this all wrong.

OP,

What you have here is a one of a kind ***tbox Soviet camera that no one else has. I'd recon it's worth about a billion rubles on the black market. I have some blue jeans and a stack of Beatles records if your willing to trade. If I owned it I'd never sell because it is so very rare. So rare that maybe you should send it to a vault in Switzerland as the NKVD and CIA will hunt you down. It may be a relic of an ancient advanced society that once thrived on the steppes of Mongolia. This is the last remaining piece of a once great and mighty empire. Some say that if you align the shutter speed and aperture perfectly on the exact hour of the exact day of the year you will awaken the great Yellow Father who will lead us all to the Great Place where Kodachrome is cheap and plentiful and processing is free.

And we all now say, Amen!

".. Soviet camera that no one else has."
- You're lying on purpose.
The expert on the history of Zorki Guido Studer, Basel has a second such camera: g-st.ch/privat/kameras/zorki.html . This is a knowledgeable, serious person, not a chatterbox and a liar.
There are two such cameras known - his and mine. This is irrefutable.

The rest does not concern you. Don't attack me. Better go help your wife wash the dishes.

 

[removed account4]

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".. Soviet camera that no one else has."
- You're lying on purpose.
The expert on the history of Zorki Guido Studer, Basel has a second such camera: g-st.ch/privat/kameras/zorki.html . This is a knowledgeable, serious person, not a chatterbox and a liar.
There are two such cameras known - his and mine. This is irrefutable.

The rest does not concern you. Don't attack me. Better go help your wife wash the dishes.

im glad you were in touch!
congratulations on your interesting find,
its too bad people can't play nice.

 

[name]

EEEK!
I hope you wore cloth gloves, acid from human perspiration ( and I'd be perspiring if I was holding that camera ) can cause more tarnish.
one good thing about covid times is you might have been wearing a mask or one of those plastic face masks so you couldn't breathe on the camera!
good luck selling it to a zorkifan !

Taking photos with Arax? Take a piece of cotton wool. Run cotton wool over any thread on Arax. What do you see? Some of the cotton wool got caught in the terrible burrs. Doesn't it scratch your hands? No blood? Always Kiev/Arsenal could not cleanly cut the threads. Arax is worse than the Soviet Kiev. Homemade camera. Throw it away. Buy an inexpensive Contax with Planar.

One little-known artist, his name was Adolf, said: "Every artist who depicts the sky as green and the grass as blue must be sterilized." Sony has been doing this for decades. Fuji - everything is brown. Minolta - screws not tightened and "plastic" yellow. Nikon - green chromatic aberrations all over, variegated background. Why professional photographers don't use Leica? The sensor are littered with oil and metal particles - many mechanical parts. Take pictures with Leica at sea for a couple of weeks. The inside is rusty due to the salt in the sea air. Expensive toy.
How do I know this? Years ago I repaired cameras and lenses. Different, any, many.

You saturate paper with various toxic chemicals in undocumented combinations and sell the small ones for $200, the big ones for $1200. These stained papers soaked in chemicals then hang on the walls in closed rooms, children's bedrooms. Unidentified chemicals evaporate from them continuously day and night for years.
It can cause poisoning, chronic diseases, allergic diseases, autoimmune diseases, cancer. I studied 7-8 different chemistry, including analytical and organic and medicine - I know what I'm writing. Do you have a state certificate for these vapors?

Go pet the cat and help your wife wash the dishes. Do something useful.

Don't attack me. Find yourself another victim.

 

[removed account4]

I have not attacked you in this or any other thread.
Its too bad YOU can't stop attacking people.
best of luck selling your camera to a zorkifan

 

[MattKing]

This thread has descended into argument and invective. It is now closed.