Catalogue information
The Mocba-5 was the last model in a series of five copies of the renowned German Zeiss Ikonta and Super Ikonta bellows / folding cameras produced by the Russian KMZ factory in Krasnogorsk from 1948 to 1960. The first model (Mockba-1) was a very faithful copy of the Zeiss Ikonta C (530/2) 6x9 viewfinder camera from 1930 and was even largely produced from original Zeiss parts that the Russians captured from the Germans during WWII. This was followed by the Mockba-2-3 and 4, but as very similar copies of the Zeiss Super Ikonta rangefinder cameras. The Mockba-5 was the last model built from 1955 to 1960. This Mockba-5 with Ser.Nr: 5715214 came from the production year 1957 (note the first two digits of Ser.Nr.) Although the Mockba-5 is modified and modernized sleek top cover - after a design of the KMZ factory - as a somewhat less convincing copy of a Zeiss Super Ikonta camera, it still carries many of the style characteristics of that famous Zeiss camera. User experts find the Mockba-5 - because with a supplied inlay mask you can switch from the 6x9 format to the square 6x6 format - the best-built Mockba camera.
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