USSR 70s

Attention!

The camera is not included in the delivery set!

As the name suggests, Flare allows the photographer to determine the distance to the subject.

For example, an amateur photographer has a scale camera that suits him on the whole. But the main disadvantage of the scalers is that the focusing distance is determined "by eye". The user wants to improve focusing accuracy, but he is not ready to change the camera to a rangefinder design just because of this.

In this case, the Soviet photo industry offered the amateur photographer to purchase an external rangefinder.

Blik was produced at the Leningrad Optical and Mechanical Association.

Blik's design is similar to rangefinders built into cameras. A scale camera equipped with such a device is not much different from a rangefinder camera.

The only difference is that focusing is split into 2 stages. If in a rangefinder camera we simultaneously measure the distance and point the lens at this distance, then in the case of the Flare, we first measure the distance, then read the distance indicator in meters from the rangefinder wheel and set this distance on the focused lens ring.

The rangefinder itself is housed in a fairly compact elongated black plastic case.

In front of the rangefinder there are viewfinder and rangefinder windows.

Rangefinder base is about 50 mm. This is more than, for example, FED-5.