Posted - Apr 27 2022 : 2:21:25 PM Filip, thanks. So nothing special, no person of interest, just somebody :-)
Juhani, at least one roll of film was inside the camera. I have found 3 big parts of film inside of it. Maybe the camera does not work anymore with these stuck parts, so it was put on the shelf.
Posted - Apr 25 2022 : 11:27:54 PM Most likely Mr Bogdanov was not into photography, so the expensive gift was left unused.
Best regards, Juhani
FilipB
Posted - Apr 25 2022 : 4:35:42 PM Hey uwittehh! Engraving should say something like: M.V. Bogdanovich, a memory frow Moscow 28.7.1946.
uwittehh
Posted - Apr 24 2022 : 11:55:07 AM By the way, when it arrives here it was really unusable. There was a heavy amount of hard grease on all gears and inside the camera. Also on the lens, it could only be turned by using force. So I disassembled it to clean it and found out that it is a FED S inside. The speed disk under the top cover has a hole vor 1/1000 of a second and this speed could be set and works fine after cleaning and relubing it. But the speed dial on the top is missing the 1/1000. I think that it sits the whole time on a shelf and was only used once or twice. Even the original shutter curtains are soft and look like new.
