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Jedediah Featherstonehaugh
JedFanshaw

United Kingdom
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Posted - Feb 14 2010 :  09:05:54 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi people
I found this camera, and several like it, on eBay today

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350300624898&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

the camera looks like a Leica I and the base plate says Geodesia 1937
Howver, it looks far too new to be from 1937
I Googled "FED Geodesia" and came up with nothing
anyone out there know what it is????

Juhani Halmeenmaki
cedricfan
Finland
1020 Posts
My Collection

Posted - Feb 14 2010 :  10:09:12 AM  Show Profile  Visit cedricfan's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Made by Moscowphoto, a famous remaker. Even colour shows it is imaginatory model.

Best regards,
Juhani
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Vladislav Kern
Vlad
USA
4252 Posts
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Posted - Feb 14 2010 :  11:22:50 AM  Show Profile  Visit Vlad's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Hi Jedediah and welcome to USSRPhoto.com!

Moscowphoto (Mika) has a very talented master that makes incredible quality fantasy cameras. These are purely to indulge collectors and users who want some like new pretty vintage cameras. We had him do our 2nd anniversary camera. He's a great guy, if you do buy something from him please say hello from me.

http://www.ussrphoto.com/Wiki/default.asp?WikiCatID=76&ParentID=1&ContentID=1151&Item=USSRPhoto.com+Special+2+Year+Edition

Cheers,
Vlad
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Bill Parkinson
nightphoto
USA
1027 Posts
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Posted - Feb 14 2010 :  2:36:32 PM  Show Profile  Visit nightphoto's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Hello Jedidiah,

The "FED Geodesia" is a non-existent camera (except for the fantasy model which you have shown us). However, there was a camera called "Geodesia" and also known as "FAG". "FAG" are the initials for "Fotographic Apparat Geodezia". It was made in the 1934-35 period. Here is the entry for it in our WIKI:

http://www.ussrphoto.com/Wiki/default.asp?WikiCatID=12&ParentID=1&ContentID=1300&Item=FAG+Geodesiya

Regards, Bill

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Jacques M.
France
2604 Posts
Posted - Feb 14 2010 :  3:59:50 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote

I sometimes wonder why I don't buy such cameras...
It will put some colour in my always black rows of Leica like cameras...

Amitiés. Jacques.
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Juhani Halmeenmaki
cedricfan
Finland
1020 Posts
My Collection

Posted - Feb 14 2010 :  11:04:09 PM  Show Profile  Visit cedricfan's Homepage  Reply with Quote

http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/1422010_Lieca.JPG

My wife thinks this is one the most beautiful cameras that I have. Right now it is in her vitrine as she has an "antique display".



Best regards,
Juhani
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Jacques M.
France
2604 Posts
Posted - Feb 15 2010 :  06:10:56 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Made from a Fed, as it seems. Very interesting, even if all that glitters is not gold, alas...

Amitiés. Jacques.

Edited by - Jacques M. on Feb 15 2010 11:20:58 AM
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Stephan Van den Zegel
stephanvdz
Belgium
176 Posts
Posted - Feb 15 2010 :  3:57:32 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
all that glitters is not fake ... it can be patina too
http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/1522010_1505.jpg



Stephan
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Stephan Van den Zegel
stephanvdz
Belgium
176 Posts
Posted - Feb 15 2010 :  4:00:02 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
i forgot to show the upper part

http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/1522010_leica1505a.jpg



Stephan
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Stephan Van den Zegel
stephanvdz
Belgium
176 Posts
Posted - Feb 15 2010 :  4:01:55 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
and I suppose that Jacques will tell me that it's a very early fed transformed in a leica II hybrid...

no it's seems to be really n°1505, upgraded twice at the factory...

Stephan
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Jacques M.
France
2604 Posts
Posted - Feb 16 2010 :  08:52:36 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote

A pity this camera is not in its IA original condition, with a mushroom release button...
I own too two well used Leica IC...
But all that is OT!

Amitiés. Jacques.
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Fred_L
France
226 Posts
Posted - Dec 21 2014 :  12:16:01 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi all!!

Here is one of these copies made probably by Mika..
Metal colour is champagne..
It's working very well

Fred



http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/21122014_Geodesia_01.jpg



http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/21122014_Geodesia_02.jpg



http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/21122014_Geodesia_03.jpg



http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/21122014_Geodesia_04.jpg



http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/21122014_Geodesia_05.jpg



http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/21122014_Geodesia_06.jpg

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Lenny
496 Posts
Posted - Dec 21 2014 :  12:34:30 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This is maybe the only fantasy camera I like, saw it on Juhani's website, #53, so I guess 99 were produced.
What was it before, a Fed? The secret might be under the base plate.
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Fred_L
France
226 Posts
Posted - Dec 21 2014 :  1:05:34 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi Lenny...

It's xmas in a few days...
Ask and you will get the picture

Fred

http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/21122014_Geodesia_07.JPG

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Lenny
496 Posts
Posted - Dec 21 2014 :  2:16:26 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thank you so much Fred.
Now I know and many of these maybe 99 cameras might be different under the baseplate.
Merry xmas to you too.
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Jacques M.
France
2604 Posts
Posted - Dec 21 2014 :  3:00:40 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote

Hi Fred!

Probably it is not a Fed.
On most Fed 1-s (except early 1a-s), the lock for the base plate was not screwed like on your camera, but riveted.
So, either you have an early 1a, either a Leica (more probable). Or something else!
Please, have a look at http://www.novacon.com.br/h3anexo2c.htm

Congratulations! Jacques.
PS: Did you asked the French seller about it?
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Fred_L
France
226 Posts
Posted - Dec 21 2014 :  3:14:48 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi Jacques

I had a look at this website about this camera..
He says it is a reflex finder....
But in fact , it is just a bubble level....

Fred
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Jacques M.
France
2604 Posts
Posted - Dec 21 2014 :  3:26:46 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote

Yes,you are right. It's only the bubble which helps the camera being right.
But I think you should have a close look at it.
The vulcanite, the position of the central screw under the lens crown, the baseplate screw: all that denotes an early prewar body (1b or early 1c).

If we add this Leica type lock to tight the baseplate, there are questions to put... Anyway, it's not a simple fake...
Amitiés. Jacques.
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Luiz Paracampo
Luiz Paracampo
Brazil
2002 Posts
My Collection

Posted - Dec 22 2014 :  9:38:20 PM  Show Profile  Visit Luiz Paracampo's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Resseeing this thread I noted the FED câmera made by Moscowphoto as the second year of USSRPhoto
FED is nor correctly written it should be FIeD

http://www.ussrphoto.com/Wiki/default.asp?WikiCatID=76&ParentID=1&ContentID=1151&Item=USSRPhoto.com+Special+2+Year+Edition

Thanks
LP
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