My ama yesterday went well so I'm happy to talk about more stuff that I know about. While I can talk a decent amount about digital photography most of my experience is with film stuff. I have grown up in the digital era so I may not be as experienced as some of you older folks. I own a few soviet cameras, a chinese one and a couple old cannons. I've used a bit more than that so I should be able to answer a decent amount of your questions.
Yeah. And the build quality is good. Granted they all have certain quirks, but that's part of the charm.
Yeah exactly. Everyone complaining about soviet build quality online needs to get a life. Just because a country is communist doesn't mean that they have horrible quality stuff. I have a canon from the same time period as my Zorki and while it's kind broken the Zorki still shoots like a pro.