Just gone through my parents old storage and found two cameras

Update!
one more lens found.
Are lenses standardized? Would it be possible to fit these to some other camera? (keeping in mind this is an old soviet make)

>>3037326
This would be the /p/ equivalent of going through grandad's drawers and finding his old SS uniform and a bunch of child porn.
Your parents are degenerate cucks who should be dragged into the town square and shot as a lesson to us all.

If they work they should be perfectly fine for someone just starting out. I suggest reading up on them online, their functions and what kind of a lens mount they are compatible with. Also what to check for to see if they are in working order.

And what the hell, if they work just buy some cheap film and go shoot.

>>3037332
one definitely works.
But Is this practical or does it work on some mystical Slav magic that makes it useless / obsolete now?

Would I be better served with a regular cheepo film camera over this ?

The lenses are standard M42 screw mount, there are lots of cameras using these. Old soviet lenses can be gold, especially Helios line, they produce great swirly bokeh. Zenit cameras are nothing special, but if they work, give them a try

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>>3037347
>Helios
am i in luck?

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Yes you are. Mir 1B - the lens on the right - is also quite cool. and you can make it cooler with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOIML_NEkiU

>>3037348
pretty cool shit you have there. an old production helios and a minty MIR-1B.

>>3037352
Well, im exited.

You know your shit anon, anywhere I should be looking to learn?

>>3037354
Generally - the internet and pages about old lenses. Maybe some older photography handbooks. I'm from Poland so it's a tad easier for me, we have tons of such gear everywhere

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There should just be a Zenit starter pack post made at this point, geez.

1)Your Zenits' viewfinders are bare ground glass with no focusing aid. Enjoy missing focus.
2)The viewfinder shows about 66% of the actual photo you'll take - frame with that in mind or your subjects will be surrounded by lots of dead space.
3)The built-in lightmeters are a strip of selenium behind a plastic grid - the worst kind possible. The Leningrad8 handheld meter is literally a bare selenium sensor that slides further or closer from the hole in the front of the meter, again, bottom of the barrel stuff. Find a uniformly lit bright wall and see which of the three meters (2 Zenit ones, the Leningrad) gives you the highest readout and use that for your first roll. Thankfully as they deteriorate they tell you to overexpose so it shouldnt be awful. You should be getting around f8 1/125 pointing at thr ground/darker objects during partially cloudy daytime at iso 100, ish, assuming northern hemisphere. If the readouts are anywhere near that, you can "trust" the lightmeter.
4)both helioses and mir have a pre-set aperture - two rings, one clicks to the aperture you want, the other ring moves smoothly between wide open and that value you selected - so you focus wide open (brighter image, more accurate focusing) and stop down before shooting. The industar pancake is cool af but you need to change the aperture manually every time. All lenses have depth of field scales on'em, so you can also zone focus,( at least with the wider mir.)

Check the shutter curtains for pinholes by opening the back, unscrewing the lens and looking at it both prior and after cocking the shutter aga7nst a bright light.

>>3037348

Helios 44 is famous for it's bokeh.

>>3037326
the middle lens there looks like an industar 50-2 as well

jelly of that mir

>>3037458
>50-2
it is indeed. something i should know about it?

>>3037464
its a neat lens 50 3.5 pancake

very small and has a neat rendition to it