I still have a Fed-4, which I bought in 1969 when I wanted a rangefinder but couldn't afford a Leica! Lent it to my oldest granddaughter for a few years, it's even survived that period... tough as they come. The rangefinder is a bit out now, but the lens, an Industar-61, is very sharp, although, from memory, the colour rendition is quite different to a Pentax lens.
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Igor PDML-StR Sent: Wednesday, 2 March 2016 03:10 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Old [-ish] cameras collection(s). Paul, yes, indeed, the one in the light-brown case in the left bottom corner is FED-2. (Actually, it was made in Ukraine.) My father bought one around 1960, right around when my brother was born. So, there are some childhood family photos taken with that. My older brother was given "Smena-7". When I was in the elementary school (probably 7-8 y.o.), Smena-7 was given to me, and my older brother got upgraded to FED-2 (it may have happened earlier). http://goo.gl/x2OPL I had a few occasions when I borrowed FED-2 from my brother (e.g. to photograph at his wedding). But he was using that (and I was using Smena-7) up until 1990, when we both bought our first SLRs: Kiev-19, which had a Nikon mount (manual focus). http://goo.gl/XbOhr and http://www.ussrphoto.com/wiki/default.asp?WikiCatID=79&ParentID=1&ContentID=278 FED-2 was a good rangefinder camera. IIRC, just before my brother bought the replacement, - a hole has developed in the shutter (wear and tear). Toine: Yes, I think you've identified those correctly. I haven't used any of the three you mentioned, but held Zenit in my hands 2-3 times. I've slightly increased (to 900x900) the file resolution (the same link). http://42graphy.org/misc/Cameras/USSR_Cameras_IR20825.jpg I've also uploaded the full-sized photo (2.5 MB) in case someone wants to look at more detail: http://42graphy.org/misc/Cameras/USSR_Cameras_IR20825-full.jpg Unfortunately not all the detail can be resolved, - I took that snapshot "in passing", at ISO-3200, handheld at 1/15 sec. I'm glad, it was interesting to some people. Cheers, Igor Paul Stenquist Tue, 01 Mar 2016 01:16:22 -0800 wrote: Hard to say for sure, but isn't there an FED Leica clone at lower left? Paul via phone > On Mar 1, 2016, at 3:13 AM, Toine <[email protected]> wrote: > > I spotted camera's I actually used (long ago). Zenit-E, Zorki and Lomo > LCA. The Zenit-E was my first SLR and got me hooked on photography. > > Toine > >> On 1 March 2016 at 01:55, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> While going through the photos for the PDML Annual, I bumped into a recent >> snapshot taken during a conference trip at a restaurant [!] in Irkutsk, >> Russia: >> http://42graphy.org/misc/Cameras/USSR_Cameras_IR20825.jpg >> All those cameras were produced in the former Soviet Union. >> >> The restaurant had a decor from and with various objects of the old Soviet >> Union times, and one of the walls had these cameras. >> >> So, I thought yesterday that PDMLers might find it interesting. >> >> But that also reminded me of a snapshot I took during a different conference >> trip to a different part of the world. This collection belongs to one of the >> PDMLers. Since I haven't asked for permission to post this photo now to >> PDML, I will not post the name. (I will leave the honor >> of self-identification to the proud owner of this sweat collection :-) ) >> http://42graphy.org/misc/Cameras/PDMLerCameras_IR15077.jpg >> >> It was fun that I thought I'd share with fellow PDMLers. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Igor -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
