What is the cheapest used Zorki 5 in the UK?

The cheapest used Zorki 5 currently listed is £51.50 at eBay, based on 4 listings compared across 1 UK retailers.

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Used Zorki 5 for Sale — From £52

£51.50 Low price

£119.36 High price

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Zorki's lever-wind rangefinder — 35mm, Leica Thread Mount, long-base finder, 1958.

The Zorki 5 is a Soviet 35mm rangefinder made by the KMZ plant at Krasnogorsk near Moscow, a member of the Zorki line built on the advanced Zorki 3 and 4 body. It appeared around 1958. It keeps the Leica screw mount and the combined long-base finder while adding a rapid-wind lever in place of the earlier wind knob.

This is a 35mm coupled-rangefinder camera using the Leica Thread Mount (39mm screw). It has a horizontal-travel cloth focal-plane shutter and a combined rangefinder and viewfinder window with a long rangefinder base. Focusing is by the coupled rangefinder and exposure is set manually; there is no built-in meter. It has a lever film advance and loads through a removable back.

The Zorki 5 suits users who want a screw-mount rangefinder with lever-wind film advance and a long rangefinder base, working with Leica Thread Mount and Soviet Industar and Jupiter lenses. It is fully mechanical and fires without a battery. The lever wind speeds up shooting compared with the knob-wind Zorki bodies while keeping the same lens system.

On the used market the Zorki 5 is affordable and offers strong value, though the sample-to-sample quality-control variance typical of former-Soviet-Union bodies means each one should be checked. Inspect the rangefinder patch for contrast and horizontal alignment, examine the cloth focal-plane shutter curtains for pinholes and capping, and confirm the slow speeds run. Aged curtain ribbons are a common service item on these bodies.