When was this J-8 made?

I have a J8 serial 01711101.
I read elsewhere that these were pre production lenses in the sense that they were used for quality assurance purposes before a production run.
 
rxmd said:
It's clearly not an original manual.
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A little bit like reading "World War I" (and not "Great War") in a monument, you'd easily infer that those words were written after 1945, and not before 1939. :cool:

That's also why they paid Encyclopedia Brown the big bucks (although you'd know otherwise by looking at the actual funding).
 
Thanks tho60; or should I say "спасибо" - if I remember correctly but it was over 50 years ago...

But, I'm still thinking that - if they were making Zorki 1's for export - them an English version ought to exist somewhere. Apologies for looking a gift horse in the mouth.

Thanks again.

Regards, David
 
David Hughes said:
But, I'm still thinking that - if they were making Zorki 1's for export - them an English version ought to exist somewhere.
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It probably does, just nobody scanned it yet; or it doesn't and producing manuals was left to the importers.
 
I'd be very surprised if they didn't do a manual in English. I used to work with them (my opposite number in the Ministry in Gorky St.) in the 60's. I found them very bureaucratic but also very thorough: all the i's and t's had to be dotted and crossed. So I'd expect one to have been produced.

I expect one will appear, sooner or later.

Regards, David
 
Downloaded the manual- THANKS!

You can see the "wings" on the aperture of the 1950 J-8, and the J-3 is an early one. Very similar to ZK lenses.
 
I downloaded the manual in Russian, but the photographs of the lenses were more detailed. Clearly showed the age of the lenses were "Zorki 1" period.
 
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