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lushd
09-16-2006, 06:38
This is from a batch of the magazine "Soveitski Soyuz" I bought recently. Published in 1962.
VinceC
09-16-2006, 06:45
That's a great photo!
Jocko
09-16-2006, 06:49
Oh that's fabulous - but I don't think much of her Kiev hold!

Cheers, Ian!
xayraa33
09-16-2006, 08:04
great photo!

let us try to ID the camera models in the pic.
from left to right my guess would be:
fed -2
zorki 3c
zenit 3
zorki 4
kiev IIIa
kiev IIa or 4a
Marc-A.
09-16-2006, 09:07
great photo!

let us try to ID the camera models in the pic.
from left to right my guess would be:
fed -2
zorki 3c
zenit 3
zorki 4
kiev IIIa
kiev IIa or 4a


I think you're right. But it's probably a Kiev 4a instead of a 2a: the end of production of the 2a is 1958; the picture is likely to show available new cameras in 1962, which leads me to the conclusion that it's a 4a. Correct?
Marc
johne
09-16-2006, 09:17
Look at which eye is used to focus on the left side of the photo! Contrived, to say the least in MHO.
Johne
Spyderman
09-16-2006, 10:04
Notice the tall meter-and-rewind dial on the metered Kiev. It's IIIa.
xayraa33
09-16-2006, 10:12
if the photo is showing the new soviet cameras of 1962, then the Kiev IIIa and the Zorki 3C are not of that period.
Marc-A.
09-16-2006, 10:40
if the photo is showing the new soviet cameras of 1962, then the Kiev IIIa and the Zorki 3C are not of that period.

Yeah, you're absolutely right. Mea culpa :angel:
Then there is no way to know if it is a 2a or a 4a, I guess ...
Marc
manfromh
09-16-2006, 10:43
great photo!
zenit 3



Its look like a Zenit-c to me. Or maybe the first Zenit
ZorkiKat
09-16-2006, 11:21
Its look like a Zenit-c to me. Or maybe the first Zenit

Definitely 1st Zenit :)
rxmd
09-16-2006, 11:51
And the photo IIRC is from Gagarin's parade in Moscow after the first spaceflight. I have it in one illustrated book about Soviet spaceflight.

Philipp
tunznath
09-16-2006, 13:48
some people do use their left eye for focussing - my wife is one,
nathan
Nachkebia
09-16-2006, 14:13
Excellent! I am soviet myself, thank you for posting! :)
Marc-A.
09-17-2006, 02:00
some people do use their left eye for focussing - my wife is one,
nathan
I mostly use my left eye ... just like a lot of people ... it's only a matter of eye dominance.

Excellent! I am soviet myself, thank you for posting! :)
Soviet? Are we back to USSR? :rolleyes:
Notice that there are a lot of young people here in France who wear t-shirts with a CCCP inscription. Funny, most of them weren't even born in 1991.
Best,
Marc
Nachkebia
09-17-2006, 02:14
Marc I meant Post soviet :) child of a soviet unnion :D
Marc-A.
09-17-2006, 03:35
Marc I meant Post soviet :) child of a soviet unnion :D
I know my friend, just kidding ;)
ErnestoJL
09-17-2006, 09:30
What I see from the pictures is that the lady with the kiev III is (at least seems to be) trying to focus (left eye closed), but the guy with the 4a have both eyes open!!!
Nice way to try focusing a Kiev!!! (1:1 VF??) (OK just kiddinī)
Anyway, itīs a very interesting picture of the past, and I also recall this one as being from the Yuri Gagarinīs parade after his first spaceflight.
Thank you for posting that picture.

Ernesto
lushd
09-17-2006, 11:20
Well - here is a Vostok crew scanned from the same edition of the magazine plus a picture of a young fan.
rxmd
09-17-2006, 12:05
Marc I meant Post soviet :) child of a soviet unnion :D
It's funny, but people from the former Soviet Union, at least the generations about age 30 and over, still tend to identify with it a lot, even though it collapsed 15 years ago.

Philipp
vanyagor
09-17-2006, 13:50
Naturally. It is the country where they (an me too) were born. + many people in Russia and other republics have relatives in other former USSR republics which makes the separation quite unnatural :)
JonP
09-17-2006, 14:57
Ivan out of interest as a member of one of the free republics how would you prefer to be addressed. Individual republics are too difficult and offense is too easy allbeit accidental
Jon P
Gabriel M.A.
09-17-2006, 15:09
I can't believe nobody's discussed the lenses. I think they are all Jupiter-8s.

Jupiter-8: The Comrade's Choice. ;)
Jocko
09-17-2006, 15:16
One comrade hears a different drum - Industar 26m on the Fed :)

Cheers Ian
vanyagor
09-17-2006, 15:43
Ivan out of interest as a member of one of the free republics how would you prefer to be addressed. Individual republics are too difficult and offense is too easy allbeit accidental
Jon P

Well, I like the word soviet. especially how it sounds in russian. So you can call me this way. Or russian. Officially I'm russian (though for some time now in russia declaring your mationality is optional, in my original papers which I got before this change I'm russian :) )

If you start to dig a bit then you would find out that my origins are from Ukraine (well actually Kiev used to be the capital of Kievskaja Rus, where both Russia and Ukraine took origin). And you if dig a bit more then you can find out it is Georgian. So it is all really related. I do not mind if one calls me Ukranian or Georgian btw :) And that is pretty common situation for many people born in our country.

Here in Minneapolis we have a big community of former USSR people. Usually everyone refers to all of them as russians. And as far as i know most people do not mind that.