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Built well, it's a 'rougher' copy of a Leica, but works pretty much the same. Louder shutter, but same system. About the same weight. No framelines make it a bit tough to compose images to a high degree of accuracy. Easy to maintain and take apart if anything goes wrong.
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The camera is a fine relic. The Industar lens on my copy is sharp, corner to corner. The rangefinder focusing is quirky--although it works fine. I like this more as an object than as a tool. Every so often, I run a roll of 24 exp. through it. It seems to chew up film after 24 exposures.
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Considering the age of camera functions aren't accurate but with some attention and servicing I'm sure it will be... Thank you.
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Ok - although Russian cameras can be a bit of a buyer beware type purchase, if you get a good one then it is a keeper. The build quality of the 1 that I bought is very high - could have been the fact it was a 50 year Russian Revolution special edition, and more care was taken. Overall a good little rangefinder. Not a Leica but similar engineering - still a lot more capable than the Kiev
My good old Zorki-4, bought as a used camera from a classmate who found it in 1970 or 1971 on a bazar in Istanbul, revealed problems after about 15 years of usage. Being looked into by an expert, a broken shutter spring was found to be the reason for the defect. After some attempts I managed to find subject camera body offered by someone from Kiev in the Ukraine. The intention is to swap springs and get my old camera working. What I received was exactly what I had expected. This body could also be used, fitted with the lense from my camera. I wouldn't have started the search for this camera if it would not be one of the most reliable cameras ever sold. I guess 2.5 million times.