I don't quite remember how old I was (most likely between 10 and 12), when I was given a "Smena-7". It looked like this guy's: http://www.nightphoto.com/smena7.html
I was happy to use my older brother's Fed-2: http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/FED_2 on a few occasions (like my brother's wedding). My second camera was an SLR, Kiev-19, (with Nikon mount): http://www.ussrphoto.com/wiki/default.asp?WikiCatID=79&ParentID=1&ContentID=278 which I purchased when I was a college student in Moscow in ~1989 or 1990. For that camera my brother and I (we both bought that camera then) had to wake up at or before 5pm, and to take the first subway train, to be at the store before its opening. That was the day when the store was expecting the delivery of these cameras (limited quantities). We managed to buy decent ones (the QC was not good, so the variation in quality was huge). I've been using Kiev-19 until I got my Pentax ZX-5n in 1997. Igor On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Bill Owens wrote: > In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 > bulbs > > Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
