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| cedricfan |
Posted - Apr 27 2008 : 12:11:21 PM
Hopefully mine next sunday 
Anyone else have one?
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| okynek |
Posted - Jul 25 2008 : 10:46:43 PM
Passport show TY******-86
TY is Technicheskie Ysloviya(Technical Conditions), as I remember, and 86 is a year when those conditions was signed up; that I know on sure,
Does it mean that camera was developed in 1986 and did not produce until 1992?
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| AidasCams |
Posted - Jul 25 2008 : 10:29:49 AM
Juhani,
thanks! My passport shows 30th March, 1992 as a date of manufacture ... I'm almost sure yours is the same ... 
http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/elikon-2_passport.jpg
Best Regards,
Aidas
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| cedricfan |
Posted - Jul 25 2008 : 10:22:03 AM
Seems Lithuania-Finland axle is growing strong in these odd Smenas and Elikons, congratulations!
But why do the serials start with the eight after year...
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| AidasCams |
Posted - Jul 25 2008 : 03:47:27 AM
Hi,
I have got mine Elikon-2 finally ...  And Juhani was right about serials starting with #918XXXX ... Mine is #9184999!
Best Regards,
Aidas |
| Vlad |
Posted - May 07 2008 : 3:06:23 PM
Juhani!
Truly significant find!! The lenses are different - on E2 it is Minar-2 on E1 is Minitar-2.
Cheers,
Vlad. |
| cedricfan |
Posted - May 07 2008 : 2:05:56 PM
And now at home 
Added pics & edited Wiki:
"A close version of Elikon/Elikon-1. Differences are:
-No rangefinder, only meter-scale
-Lens has same name Minitar-2 but f/3,8 instead of f/2,8
-ISO instead of GOST
-No lens data ring around front lens, smaller front lens
Serial #9186757 (Juhani)
Serial #9184808 (Finnish collector)
Sidenote: Instructions booklet says "Vilejskij zavod Zenit" as manufacturer!"
http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/Elikon2c.JPG
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| AidasCams |
Posted - May 05 2008 : 11:56:01 AM
quote:
Originally posted by cedricfan
Zoom: this picture is again one of those that have been spread so around the internet that only a hnadful know where the origin is. If you insist I will delete it from my files?
Aidas: what is Elikon-5, as I have never seen anything about that anywhere? Or only a joke like Smena-13... And only place where I found Orion-35C mentioned was yours, yet no picture nor anything if it has been somewhere sometime?
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Juhani,
If I remember correctly, Viktor Suglob was sending Christmas cards with picture of Elikon-5. The only thing I know it's somehow similar to Elikon-535 camera, but not the identical one. And I was lucky to hold the real Orion-35C in my very own hands, during my last stay in neighbour Minsk.
Regards,
Aidas
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| Zoom |
Posted - May 05 2008 : 11:10:42 AM
quote:
Originally posted by cedricfan
Zoom: this picture is again one of those that have been spread so around the internet that only a hnadful know where the origin is.
Origin? Scanned from the catalogue "Still cameras and binoculars from the USSR". TENTO (v/o Technointorg), USSR, Moscow (not dated).
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| cedricfan |
Posted - May 05 2008 : 08:56:42 AM
Zoom: this picture is again one of those that have been spread so around the internet that only a hnadful know where the origin is. If you insist I will delete it from my files?
Aidas: what is Elikon-5, as I have never seen anything about that anywhere? Or only a joke like Smena-13... And only place where I found Orion-35C mentioned was yours, yet no picture nor anything if it has been somewhere sometime?
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| okynek |
Posted - May 05 2008 : 08:12:11 AM
Juhani congratulation with you new camera!!!
I hope you will complete Elecon collection soon and show it for our enjoyment!!!
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| Zoom |
Posted - May 05 2008 : 06:20:45 AM
quote:
Originally posted by cedricfan
So the next question is if anyone has ever seen an Elikon-1 in reality? Other than foggy pics like this:
http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/elikon-1.jpg
And again I know the source!
This picture is from the page
http://www.zenitcamera.com/articles/cameras/schneider-russians-eng.html
( http://www.zenitcamera.com/archive/history/elikon-1.jpg )
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| AidasCams |
Posted - May 05 2008 : 12:31:53 AM
Juhani,
Indeed, you are very close to complete your great Elikon collection! And only few "common" cameras are still missing ... Orion-35C, Elikon-1 and Elikon-5 . As far as I know, Viktor doesn't have Elikon-1 in his collection yet, so the question is still open.
Regards,
Aidas |
| cedricfan |
Posted - May 04 2008 : 3:19:27 PM
So the next question is if anyone has ever seen an Elikon-1 in reality? Other than foggy pics like this:
http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/elikon-1.jpg
Or is the only ones in (possibly) Finland and at Suglob's...
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| AidasCams |
Posted - May 04 2008 : 1:48:19 PM
CONGRATULATIONS!!! |
| cedricfan |
Posted - May 04 2008 : 1:19:31 PM
And mine for 24.89 euros totally!
Serials:
9186757 (mine)
9184808 (sellers)
On midweek more, with pics and comaprison to "numberless".
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| cedricfan |
Posted - Apr 28 2008 : 11:50:00 AM
The seller (a friend of mine) called me, this is not his only one, but a spare one. So he still keeps the other one for his collection!
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| AidasCams |
Posted - Apr 27 2008 : 3:00:06 PM
Juhani,
I'm ready to go myself to Finland next week and bid locally ... |
| cedricfan |
Posted - Apr 27 2008 : 2:49:46 PM
Unless there's nobody here that has a finnish friend to bid on it it is mine
Here the local market for things like this is so small that I am bound to get it 
But next sunday I will know it for sure, anyway I have placed a bid that is double what any other local bidder would  |
| AidasCams |
Posted - Apr 27 2008 : 2:35:35 PM
Wow ! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
During years I was lucky to see only 3 of them. Viktor Suglob has 2 different versions, one more came for sale on Molotok just few months ago (unfortunately I was too late to buy one ... ).
Only few hundreds of Elikon-2 were produced, so lucky you ...
Best Regards,
Aidas |
| Vlad |
Posted - Apr 27 2008 : 12:44:35 PM
Juhani, congratulations!!! These are absolutely impossibly rare! |
