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Leningrad series

 

1) The prototypes

First proto

 

The “Missing Link” 1952

Vertical Steel Focal Plane Shutter Copal Style! Ten years before!

Bayonet similar to AlpaReflex and Leica M3 Two years before Leica!

First model with spring motor drive

Frame counter around the speed selector!

Synchronization on two pins in Exakta style.

 

 

Second proto

 

Hand made  “Classic” Pre-run 1955

Differs from series model on the base plate which is 2mm lower. The eyelets are new buttons. The position of the shutter button is slightly off-set

This new model uses Zorki 4 type shutter

The new rangefinder shares its project together German WERRA

This is an image seen in the Leningrad Range/viewfinder .

One has the 50, 85,135mm fields.

The full frame can be taken as 35mm wide-angle view and the center brilliant rectangle is the rangefinder extra image that composes the focus.

 

First run “Leningrad” 1956

Combined rangefinder/viewfinder for 50/85/135 field of view

12 shots in one winding and up to 3 frames per second.

 

2) And these were the mass produced Leningrads

 

 

Year: 1959 Four screws

Speeds:

1  2  5  10    50  100  250  500 1000  B  25

 

 

Year: 1958 Two screws

Speeds:

1  2  5  10    50  100  250  500 1000  B  25

 

 

Year: 1959 Four screws

Speeds:

1  2  5  10    50  100  250  500 1000  B  25

 

Year: 1963 Four screws

Speeds:

1  2  5  10    50  100  250  500 1000  B  25

 

 

Year: 1958  Two screws

High capacity spring motor

Speeds:

1  2  5  10    50  100  250  500 1000  B  25

 

 

Year: 1959  Four screws

High capacity spring motor

 

Speeds:

1  2  5  10    50  100  250  500 1000  B  25

 

 

Year: 1961 Four screws

Speeds:

1  2  5  10    50  100  250  500 1000  B  25

 

 

Year: 1965 Four screws

Speeds:

1  2  4  8  15  60  125 250  500 1000  B 30

 

 

Year: 1964 Four screws

Speeds:

1       2  4  8  15  60  125 250  500 1000  B 30

 

2-) Special Leningrads

“Police Special”  Leningrad 1964

Special mount bayonet in the car windshield

Industar 50 lens

24x24 mm pictures, speeds 1/100 and B, no synch, no finder, no self- timer.

This camera was superseded by  BelOMO “Selena” Type

Year: 1966 Four screws

Electric drive

Speeds:

60 and1000

Space Leningrad

http://www.novacon.com.br/odditycameras/spleningrad.htm

“Space program Leningrads”

фас аппарат

First and second series 1963/1966

рзф Ленинград

Radio controlled camera set 1959

http://corsopolaris.net/leningrad/leningrad.html

There were  Leningrads in the Land, in the Space and under the Sea!

 

“KRAB” Underwater housing

 

Planned to be used  with:

Jupiter-8 or Jupiter-3 (27º underwater)

Jupiter-12 (47º underwater)

Orion-15 (56º underwater)

Russar MR-2 (70º underwater)

Hydrorussar-3 (70º underwater-corrected for close distances)

 

Here four views of Leningrad first production series

1958