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Introducing myself and brown FED 1b from 1935

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[quote]Hello everybody,

I am Ulrich from Germany, a collector of russian cameras since some years (but using them since decades, my first one was a Revueflex B).
Some of you may know me from the Zenit-yahoo-group (Hello Juhani and Guido :-).

In the last weeks I've had mail contact to Vlad, I have told him of my early FED 1b from 1935 that has a brown(!) leatherette. It looks real, not only heavy used, because the whole camera looks as it is new.

It woulb be nice if anyone can what kind of FED this is, I post some URLs to the pictures:

Here is the brown FED 1b from 1935, serial 13743 (with the depression under the speed knob):
[img]http://fotos.cconin.de/temp/fedbrown01.jpg[/img]
[img]http://fotos.cconin.de/temp/fedbrown02.jpg[/img]
[img]http://fotos.cconin.de/temp/fedbrown03.jpg[/img]

compared to a FED 1b with serial 23537:

[img]http://fotos.cconin.de/temp/fedblack01.jpg[/img]
[img]http://fotos.cconin.de/temp/fedblack02.jpg[/img]
[img]http://fotos.cconin.de/temp/fedblack03.jpg[/img]

The vulcanite of the early one is complete different to the later one (and they are only 10.000 numbers away), the early one lokks brown, it is much more finer and feels smoother. The camera itself is very well made, cocks very smooth and releases quiet (compared to a Leica from 1934 it is better!).

Maybe someone knows anything about this kind of early FED? Why is the vulcanite so different? The one with serial 23xxx doesn't cock so smooth and looks a bit more rough.

Best regards
Ulrich
Btw. take a look at my collection under
http://fotos.cconin.de/kameras
I also sell some duplicates of my collection and am able to repair them :-)

http://fotos.cconin.de[/quote]

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