Here's what I did following the advice given above and in other threads.
1. Disabled the whole PMOD section.
2. Searched for and removed the "poliroid" file.
3. Edited the following in
World_of_Tanks\res_mods\configs\xvm\Aslain\camera.xc
camera section - "enabled": true,
sniper mode - set "startZoom": 8,
Set "zooms": [2, 4, 8] to [2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 30],