A red logo Moscow-5

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Topic author: Kievuser

Posted on: 20090409044019

Hello folks,

I have a somewhat different Moscow-5. It has an I-23 1:4.5 F=11cm lens made in 1954, while the camera body has a s/n of 59xxxxx. I'd like to know your opinions.

Cheers,

Zhang

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Reply author: mermoz37

Replied on: 20090409044412

Nice camera but you know...it is so easy to change engraving color (refiled in wax or some acrylic paint...)
freindly,
Alain

Reply author: Kievuser

Replied on: 20090409045558

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by mermoz37
 Nice camera but you know...it is so easy to change engraving color (refiled in wax or some acrylic paint...)
freindly,
Alain
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It was not only for the colour of the logo. Its camera body is different from that of Moscow 2-5. Tha shape of the metal support is similar to that of a Moscow-1, and the lens could have come from a Moscow-4. I guess it was made with left-over parts, and that is why it has a red logo.[:)]

Reply author: Kievuser

Replied on: 20090412190515

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Kievuser
 <blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by mermoz37
 Nice camera but you know...it is so easy to change engraving color (refiled in wax or some acrylic paint...)
freindly,
Alain
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

It was not only for the colour of the logo. Its camera body is different from that of Moscow 2-5. Tha shape of the metal support is similar to that of a Moscow-1, and the lens could have come from a Moscow-4. I guess it was made with left-over parts, and that is why it has a red logo.[:)]

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This is what I mean. This chrome part are found only on Moscow 1,and sometimes Moscow 2 cameras that with a sheet metal body case. Now it is found on a Moscow-5's die-cast body. So I guess that the factory made this camera with left-over parts.[:D][;)]

Kind regrards,

Zhang

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