What is the camera on the cover?

[vytasn]

Can anyone identify the camera on the cover of William Boyd's novel "Sweet Caress"? I think the Canadian release cover is different from the US and UK ones, here is a link:

http://www.amazon.ca/Sweet-Caress-W...8&qid=1451006215&sr=8-1&keywords=sweet+caress

In the novel the character uses a leica, voigtlander and rollei, but that obviously doesn't mean that the cover has to be one of them. I thought it might be a voigtlander?

 

[xayraa33]

looks to be a zorki 6

 

[nikon_sam]

Some sort of Russian Zorki 6 is what I'm finding...

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Zorki-6 with Jupiter-8.

 

[maddoc]

Looks identical to my Zorki 6

 

[David Hughes]

Hi,

Another vote for the Zorki 6 and a little editing away of the name plate...

Regards, David

 

[ForestCap]

Looks like a Zorki-6 to me.

Considered to be very similar to Zorki-5 but the shutter chamber is merged with the chassis, with only one piece of metal sealing from bottom with screws, that's why you can't see the "four screws" usually seen on the front surface of other Zorkis/ LTMs. I guess it's a design to increase durability. fewer parts=fewer parts can go wrong.

 

[David Hughes]

Hi,

The Zorki 6 is an interesting camera in the evolution of the Leica model II as continued (a sort of ******* line) in the USSR. It feels right in the hands and has a lever wind and an engraved shutter speed dial; unlike the Zorki 4k.

It went on to sire the Zenit cameras and I've often looked at the Zenit 3M's lever wind and wondered if it would replace the one on my Z6. I guess that's a disease in the photographic world; meaning looking at cameras and lenses and wondering what a mildly tweaked version would be like.

You've got to admire the USSR designers who tweaked the Zeiss Sonnar into a 39mm screw thread version as the Jupiter-8.

Regards, David