In the last London Steem Community Meetup, I was speaking to the amazing 
One of my favourite cameras is the legendary Zenit-E. Now, there's nothing legendary about the camera itself. Apparently, it is considered a 'junk camera' in Russia and Ukraine.
What is legendary about it, which is why I love it so, is the lens it was shipped with - the Helios-44-2.
Some of my favourite photos I've ever taken were with this lens. I owned three cameras that all came with this lens - Zenit-E, Zenit-12XP and PrinzeFlex 500. The Prinzeflex is really a Zenit-E, but with a label glued on top of the Zenit branding. It was hilarious to me when the label fell off and the camera instantly reverted to being a Zenit-E.
Apart from film photography, this lens is also quite popular in the digital photography world. The architecture of the lens gives it some special characteristics that are so beloved - both for photography and cinematography. Ironically, those characteristics were perceived as imperfections back in those days.
Up till today, I get comments on my YouTube videos I made about this camera, mostly from ex-Soviet nations, saying how the camera is 'ugly' or 'junk'. They also comment on how I pronounce Zenit incorrectly. I am proud to announce that I now know how to correctly pronounce it properly thanks to
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