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Aidas Pikiotas
AidasCams
Lithuania
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 Posted - Nov 26 2007 : 03:08:21 AM
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Hello friends,
I would like to know more about this mysterious camera, called "Elikon-1". Although I can find some related records in late soviet literature, I have never seen this camera alive.
Few years ago we have discussed with Juhani a lot about Elikon-1, but the situation is still unclear recently. The only thing I have - few articles in Soviet photo magazine and camera books + bad quality samples ...
Thanks,
Aidas
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BERRY alain
mermoz37
France
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Posted - Nov 26 2007 : 03:14:10 AM
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i possess Elikon but whithout "1" .I do not know if it is exactly the same...but it seem.if you think yes , please ask for describe and pics.
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Aidas Pikiotas
AidasCams
Lithuania
973 Posts
My Collection
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Posted - Nov 26 2007 : 03:47:11 AM
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Dear Alain,
I possess at least 3 versions of Elikon numberless camera indeed. After the close examination you will see that both cameras are identical, but Elikon comes with flash socket and Elikon-1 comes with flash FE-29. Need to mention, that soviet camera sources refer these two cameras as similar, but different cameras ...
Regards,
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BERRY alain
mermoz37
France
814 Posts |
Posted - Nov 26 2007 : 05:16:58 AM
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here 2 pictures from mine
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BERRY alain
mermoz37
France
814 Posts |
Posted - Nov 26 2007 : 05:18:44 AM
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Luiz Paracampo
Luiz Paracampo
Brazil
2002 Posts
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Posted - Nov 26 2007 : 06:25:41 AM
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| Once I had a literature from Technointorg about this camera. This was an atempt to make a version of Olympus XA with Russian components, but it proved to be expensive and unreliable in the quality control. After a small pilot run, with two series (flash coupling) the production was suspended. The first main problem was the discharging flash capacitor that presented leakage after a short time. The other one was shown by the tantalum foil capacitor in the shutter auto timing control. |
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BERRY alain
mermoz37
France
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Posted - Nov 26 2007 : 06:58:15 AM
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Luiz ,
i forgot on the picture a part: the flash synch shoe complement. (if necessary i can make another picture. |
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Zoom
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Juhani Halmeenmaki
cedricfan
Finland
1020 Posts
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Posted - Nov 26 2007 : 09:33:37 AM
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I think I did once see somebody mention that "numberless" was sold with the adapter shoe for normal flash, and "1" was sold with the special flash FJE-29. But when flash/shoe is taken away the cameras are basically same.
BTW I wonder what percentage of all the survived numberless Elikons exist within this group? 50% possibly?
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Juhani Halmeenmaki
cedricfan
Finland
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Posted - Nov 26 2007 : 09:52:31 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by Zoom
Btw, if you click on the Elikon-1 picture on the page
http://www.zenitcamera.com/articles/cameras/schneider-russians-eng.html
you'll see a picture from the Technointorg catalogue...
Good old Jason Schneider, one of the authors that I can blame for these hobbies 
I remember well buying Modern Photography and Amateur Photographer (UK) in late 70ies, as finnish camera magazines had rarely anything deep going about cameras 
Also I can blame those magazines for my english, as reading foreign text was an excellent way to learn, and as you get started there simply isn't an end, and I continued up to reading books like Silmarillion in english.
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Camera question: Elikon-1
