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Zenit Quarz DS8-3

Accepts Double Super 8 reel film (reels with up to 10m film)

Year: 1971 - 1983

Lens: Meteor-8M 1.8 / 9 - 38 mm, single coated

Manual Zoom

Frame rates: single frame, 12, 18, 24, 36

Manual / Auto Exposure

+/- correction for auto

Cable release socket

No sound

No batteries needed (selenium light meter)

Spring wound drive motor

Made in Russia

Manufacturer: Zenit (Mechanical Factory Krasnogorsk, USSR)

Original price in Eastern Germany (German Democratic Republic) in 1976: 706,10 Mark (s. comments)

Prices on eBay:

• eBay Germany:
  • EUR 29,00 (+ EUR 7,90 shipping) in 04/2006
  • EUR 1,99 (+ EUR 7,00 shipping) in 11/2006
  • EUR 1,99 (+ EUR 6,00 shipping) in 04/2007

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Double-Super8-Camera!!!

A closer look at the camera (requires java)

A web page about the camera by David Haardt

Description found here, some mistakes corrected using the information from David Haardt's web page:

• Motor: mechanical motor with a clock spring mechanism.
• Film frame: 4.22 x 5.69 mm
• Film: Double Super 8 film, plastic spools, 7.5m or 10m long
• Speed: Speed - fixed 12, 18, 24, 36, frames per second, and single shooting.
• Shutter speed: 12fps-1/23s, 18fps-1/20s, 24fps-1/45s, 36fps-1/68s, single shooting 1/20s
• Lens: Zoom lens Meteor-8M 1.8/9-38mm
• Focusing: via focusing screen or via distance marks on the lens.
• Light meter: The camera has a selenium light meter with match-needle in the viewfinder.
• Film speed setting: Manual setting of film speed 20-200 ISO (domestic version) or 12-160 ISO (export version)
• Viewfinder: Reflex 0.5-2.05x
• Shooting mode: Camera has manual and semi auto mode to set up aperture (match-needle)
• Size: 186 x 68 x 150mm
• Weight: 1.6 Kg

Remark:
The original price is hard to convert to current currencies:

• The official exchange rate between Mark (Eastern Germany) and DM (Western Germany) was 1:1, which would give approx. 350 EUR. This official exchange rate also reflects that the average income was nearly the same in Eastern and Western Germany in the early seventies (approx. 1100 Mark vs. approx. 1300 DM).
• Nevertheless the unofficial (read: illegal) exchange rate between Mark and DM was somewhere between 10:1 and 20:1 in Eastern Germany, so the original price would convert to 18 to 35 EUR.

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