page_title: Zenit (camera)
section_title: Models with a Selenium cell lightmeter
hierarchical_section_title: Zenit (camera) / Camera models / Zenit-E line / Models with a Selenium cell lightmeter
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of the camera I took and used for my blog article
context_page_description: Zenit is a Russian camera brand manufactured by KMZ in the town of Krasnogorsk near Moscow since 1952 and by BelOMO in Belarus since the 1970s. The Zenit trademark is associated with 35 mm SLR cameras. Among related brands are Zorki for 35 mm rangefinder cameras, Moskva and Iskra for medium-format folding cameras and Horizon for panoramic cameras. In the 1960s and 1970s, they were exported by Mashpriborintorg to 74 countries.
  The name is sometimes spelled Zenith in English, such as the manuals published by the UK Zenit-importer TOE. However, TOE's imported camera bodies as from 1963 retained the "Zenit" badges. The early Zorki-based models before that time were labelled "Zenith" in a handwritten style of script.
context_section_description: Zenit-E
  Zenit-EM, Produced between 1972-1984 by KMZ.
  Zenit-ET
  Zenit-10
  Zenit-11
caption: Zenit 12xp
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