--- In halfframe35@yahoogroups.com, "ukkid189" <xtel444@...> wrote:
>
> Hi John and All
> I think I've now manageto upload photo's look in Jim's Album
> Here are some details and photo's of tha MT-1 Camera.
> It was made by KMZ of Moscow in the eighties and nineties
> for medical use in Hospital Labourites, Primary to be
> attached to a Eidescope for recording image data,
> It has a Data back but only for numbers fo Identification
> It's format Size is 18 X 24 standard half frame, It comes with
> two lenses a 50mm F7 and a 30mm F3.5, It has a verticle
> run electronic "droper"shutter 1sec to 1/1000 sec plus B
> Now by taking the lens mount of , (very easy just four screws to
> undo)
> you can take the lens mount of any old Zenit E or EM fit it two
> the MT-1 making sure tha the flat bit is at the top, This makes
> sure the Auto diaphram works,
> Now you will have a full systems camera that has access
> to M42 mount lenses, Can be obtain easy, from 20mm to 1000 mm
> With it not having a ground glass screen one may find
> it a bit more tricky to focus. But it gives wonderfull results
> I got mine of e.bay Via Alex-Photo for £40.00 ( about $80.00 )
> new with two the two lenses.
> anyway take a look at the photo's below.
> All the Best Mate
> Jim Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Thanks for the photos Jim, thats a clever setup, a new halfframe SLR.
I noticed you said it was an electronic shutter, so then the camera
would need batteries to operate. That suprises me as I would have
thought the KMZ works would have normally built a mechanically timed
shutter.
regards, John R.