The Chaika name was also use for Chaika electronic flashguns
Chaika type 1a image by [1] Alexander Komarov
Chaika is a 35mm film half frame viewfinder camera made by MMZ and produced between 1965-67 with quantity of 171.400 units.
Chaika is also known as Chaika-1 and belongs to the Chaika half frame cameras series.
This was the first in a compact, well-made series of half-frame cameras.
There are 2 types and 3 subtypes of the camera. [1]
Specifications[]
- Frame size: 18x24mm
- Lens: Industar-69 28mm f/2.8
- Aperture: up to f/16
- Focus range: 0.8m to inf.
- Filter: slip-on
- Shutter: leaf shutter with speeds 1/30-1/250 +B
- Flash PC socket
- Cable release socket
- Shutter release: rectangular, on front of the camera
- Memory dial
- Body: metal
Chaika models[]
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| Chaika 1, 2,3 image by Dmitry (Image rights) |
Notes and references[]
- ↑ As to Alexander Komarov