it's really amazing that so many Fed-1e look so good, as if they were never used, as if they were not bought from someone who wants to use it, as if they were gifts maybe for outstanding military performance.
I put it in the wiki under FED-1e too, to be complete.
that's a FED-S, I have a 1e FED-S also with 1/1000 but regular 3.5 lens. Will look at serial # later if you guys are interested. it's in 17XXXXX range..
Top secret Ruling State Defense Committee Number 2445 cc Moscow Kremlin
October 23, 1942
On the selection of opto-mechanical production from the plant number 296 Narkomaviaproma and transfer it to the system Narkomvooruzheniya
State Defense Committee decided:
1. Cancel Item 4 Resolution GFCS 2140 pp 1) of 4 August 1942 relating to the transfer of the plant number 296 2) Narkomaviaproma’ in Narkomvooruzheniya’ system.
2. To instruct the Narkomaviaprom - T Shakhurin pass before November 1 of this year on factories Narkomvooruzheniya optical optical-mechanical manufacturing factory number 296 in the formulation.: a) all work in progress for all opto-mechanical, civil and military instruments, manufactures and previously produced on the factory number 296; b) all equipment, tools and equipment for the production of optical components and assemblies of optical instruments and 30% of the total number of factory normal cutting and measuring tools for metalworking; c) reserves all metals, glass and other optical materials available in the plant for production of opto-mechanical devices; d) metal cutting, optical and other equipment, according to Annex 3); d) all workers, engineers and technicians working in the optical and assembly plants in the optical manufacturing plant and 20% of workers in the mechanical and instrumental workshops.
3. To instruct the Narkomvooruzheniya - ing. Ustinova translate transmitted, according to paragraph 2 of this resolution, optical-mechanical part of the production plant number 296 on the Siberian group of optical factories Narkomvooruzheniya 4).
4. To instruct the People's Commissariat - ing. Hrulev select cars in the amount and timing of application Narkomvooruzheniya for transportation of equipment, materials and people from the factory 296 Narkomaviaproma (Mountains. Berdsk Novosibirsk Region) optical Narkomvooruzheniya plants.
Chairman of the State Defense Committee I. Stalin
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Top secret Chairman of the State Defense Committee Comrade I. V. Stalin Here we present a draft Resolution of the State Defense Committee, "On the selection of opto-mechanical production from the plant number 296 Narkomaviaproma and transfer it to the system Narkomvooruzheniya".
Currently, the plant number 296 manufactured pumps for direct injection aircraft engines, power tools and military optical instruments. Available in three different factory production complicates the process and does not provide further their normal development.
The draft regulation provides for the allocation of optical-mechanical manufacturing plant number 296 on Narkomvooruzheniya plants and leaving the factory number 296 in Narkomaviaproma system for the production of pumps and power (motors) of direct injection. L. Beria D. Ustinov P. Dementiev
October 22, 1942 Nº LB-2788
Narkomaviaprom - National Comitee of airplane production Narkomvooruzheniya - National Comitee of weapon (production)
Thanks, Luiz, for the link! It seems, if I understand correctly the first part, that many (all? some?) Fed 1 have an inscription inside, giving the date of manufacture.
I have checked some of my Fed 1, and my last 1e s/n 183231 has 30 VIII engraved inside. So, it should have been made the 30 of august 1941, certainly at Kharkov, like all the other numbered 1e we know.
To complete this thread, following the article of photolubitel, the internal inscriptions of my Fed 1e:
- 175011: not readable, - 180971 S: 3 VIII - 182912: 4 III - 183231: 30 VIII
Many of my Fed 1 have this inscription made with a needle. The place seems on the shutter box, in the cassette house (under the rewind button). But it should be necessary to dismount partially the camera to see that perfectly.
My 182912 seems out of the lines, with its 4 III...
Hello, thanks to all of you guys for the very interesting posts! I think that someone expert has to edit the Wiki page, a lot confusing indeed! I mean this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FED_(camera)
Another Fed 1e, here. The s/n 183613, one of the last ones. The date inside is 16/X or 16/XI, so after the evacuation. Could it be a "real" Berdsk? It's a pity we don't have the dates of control for the very last 1e-s, up to c. 184000, as it seems.
Of course, there can be other explanations: repair, re-mounting with other parts, etc.
Something else interesting: the lens is a collapsible macro, s/n 2121. But is it the original one? I don't know.
At first sight, all seems correct for a 1e. Except, of course, the date 16/X. If this camera is completely original, that would mean that some very late 1e were mounted after the evacuation, possibly at Berdsk.
Concerning this s/n 183613, the shutters are original, and I found nothing really strange when taking it to pieces, except that the lensplate is not shimmed, and that it seems not perfectly centered on the body. Perhaps difficult conditions of mounting at Berdsk?
The last 1e known is the s/n 183906, by Alexey Nikitin's site. As far as I know, we don't know the internal inscription of date on the very late 1e.
- the S # 178311 with the 2/50mm # 32348. Date inside: 8 VII, more or less coherent with the other dates we have, - the S # 183209, with a macro collapsible Fed lens. In fact, all comes from a Fed-Zorki camera, except the cover! Beautiful leatherette, perfectly working. And no date inside (contrarily to Fed, KMZ did not have that "tradition").
The "20-1" was engraved for the Fed B: coupling with the slow speed machanism. Rather rare! All the rest is common, alas. I hoped some traces on the shutter box, but all is regular...
I had forgotten: 31 VIII (1941) is engraved inside on the shutter box. It's the last day found for these cameras, though the last s/n is 183892 in our wiki, 183906 by Alexei Nikitin's site... Was this camera delayed for some reason, or the mounting at the factory went on later in september? I own the 183613 with 16 X inside, but I doubt...
I received another 1e S some days ago, in very bad condition, but for nothing (or almost). In fact, the rewind button was lacking (easy to re-place), but the release button was absent too. So, no connecting rod towards the release spring, no command of the main drum, etc. My first idea was to keep it for parts.
But a 1e S is not such common... Here is the result. The body is still a wreck, but the missing parts are in place. It is always non working: the curtains must be changed and the mechanism checked. But I had a lot of fun!
Fed Berdsk - Known Examples
Posted - May 16 2016 : 10:49:15 AM
Beautiful leatherette, perfectly working. And no date inside (contrarily to Fed, KMZ did not have that "tradition").
