ZENIT-EM USSR Soviet Union Russian 35mm SLR Camera

back in the 1980s if you were a teenager getting into photography there was a big problem money cameras were expensive if you think back then a pint of beer was fifty P or even less at the beginning of the 80s but a camera was 70 to 80 pounds easily and that was the most basic single lens reflex the Japanese cameras like Fuji and Olympus and Pentax were 150 pounds so what would how could you put your pocket money to good use you either bought a secondhand camera or there was one manufacturer that was making cameras for about 48 52 pounds which was still quite a lot of money but it meant you could buy a new camera the key manufacturer of those cameras was zenith the russian camera and the russian manufactures because the Russia at Bath stage was very keen to get some up exports and it was making quite a name for itself of affordable cameras and one of the most popular of that time was th