Description
The #Rubin1 has 14 elements in 11 groups. and was the kit lens that came with the Zenit 6 camera. The Zenit Camera lines top model of this family, was the Zenit-6 which came with with the first Soviet photographic zoom lens, the Rubin-1. It eloquently played the role of an expensive toy in the Soviet movie ‘Zigzag of Success (1968). The main character, the photographer Oreshnikov, looks at it in a store window with a price sticker showing 400 roubles (he is dreaming about a journalistic career). His attempt to win the money in a lottery becomes the center of the entire movie.
This camera family was one of the most ambitious projects of the whole camera making of USSR in that era.
The #Rubin1 was Loosely based on the Voigtländer Zoomar, originally designed by Dr. Frank G. Back as a motion picture lens, the Zoomar was widely considered to be the first successful zoom lens for 35mm. Both lenses have 14-elements in 11 groups, but the position of the individual elements is not the same. The Zoomar also has a slightly wider range of 36mm to 82mm, as well as the original method for zoom mechanics differs significantly.
We are excited to see what you creative spin up with this beautiful piece of history reimaginedh.
