The history of Zenit 12xp

What to do? Good camera of that time were too expensive for ordinary Soviet citizen. That's done on a "catch up and surpass ..." products for people. The powers that be at all times, and so get what they want, but others, not to murmur, finds that there is. That camera famous Krasnogorsk plant can be ranked in the category of "what is." Nevertheless, they grew more than one generation, and images captured with cameras CMH kept, literally, in every family. And no matter how much we do not grumble at the quality of our products, we use it, filmed it and printed (sometimes even very good) pictures.

Zenith for a long time was the only relatively accessible SLR camera in our country. Chamber, which sealed the millions and millions of human destinies - babies right out of the hospital, first class and last call, the oath in the Army, weddings and outdoor recreation as a family, but in the end of the road and a funeral, what to do, it's - life.

Zenith was born, lived and survived its era. But he now wants to die - yes, it overtaken by younger, accurate, automated devices, almost exclusively - Japanese manufacturers. Yes, sometimes lame build quality, and Rivals mostly with primitive plastic "soap holders," comparable to "Zenith" prices ... But Zenit had lived fifty years - is alive and well worthy moved into the third millennium.
And he is one of the oldest in the world of serial uzkoplenochnyh SLR with fixed pentaprism. Before him, perhaps only "Praktica", the heiress "Contax-S". Other candidates ("Exakta", "Miranda", "Alpa") is already "out of the race," and those who have not gone - there were only after ...

And he was the most popular SLR XX century ... There is much to be proud!

Mark ZENIT was officially registered in the CMH USSR State Committee in 1965, but still, from a legal point of view - quite wrongly, used by other companies in the sector, and foreign trade organizations. But talk about any legal relationship between the conditions of Soviet socialism, it would be naive - the legitimacy and feasibility determined by the Ministry.