Zenit 3M
The Zenit 3M is a 35mm SLR made in the USSR by KMZ between 1962 and 1970 as part of the long-running Zenit series. It has interchangeable lenses using a 39mm screw-thread mount (rangefinder lenses using this mount will mount to the camera but will not focus). A UK version of this camera doesn't have the 3M marking on it only marked Zenit on the front. Has a self timer lever on the front that is activated by a button just above it. Shutter speeds are 1/30 (Flash X-Sync at this speed), 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500 and Bulb. Frame counter is on the film advance lever. The SLR mirror is not self returning and requires you advance the film to return it so you can see through the lens again.
Zenit 3M (UK Version) with Helios 44M Lens image by Morinaka_2010 (Image rights) |
Zenit 3M with Industar 50mm F3.5 lens image by clicks_1000 (Image rights) |
Links
In French:
- Zenit 3M, Revueflex on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand
In English:
- Zenit 3m at Retrography.com by Simon Simonsen, Denmark
- Zenit 3M by Tom A.H. Piel
- Crystall & Zenit 3M at sovietcams.com
- Zenit 3M at rus-camera.com
- JM Burtscher sovietcamera website : Sovietcamera french website