Reviving the Legend - Sharp-4

Hello everyone! My name is Anton, I am fond of photography and an engineer, unexpectedly for myself I discovered the direction of the reconstruction of cameras, which I will tell you about today.





A couple of years ago, I got my hands on Zorky-4 in a shabby case, traces of unknown origin, a sticky curtain and a bunch of dust in the visor and rangefinder.





Patient at the entrance
Patient at the entrance

At first I planned to put in order only the mechanics and the visor, but in the process of work I realized: I want to make it different from everyone else - to make it stand out against the background of the other 1,715,677 Zorkih-4s produced in 17 years at KMZ!





Mechanics and Optics

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The same superbook

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... in order not to go crazy when assembling, it is better to carefully sign everything and photograph all important operations ..
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Those sticky curtains
Rangefinder visor and shutter delay mechanism
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A bit of engineering eroticism :)
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  • in his stupidity, he crookedly put the cocking head holding spring, the result was its deformation when trying to cock the bolt. Here I was also lucky - I managed to correct it to its original position.





The conclusion suggests itself: the enemy of camera repair is stupidity and springs!





in the second part I will talk about the appearance ...

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