Strange stereo camera
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Topic author: nhchen
Posted on: 20161121023629
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Reply author: Alfa2
Replied on: 20161121044300
There is a name of the camera:
этюд - etyud
Reply author: Jacques M.
Replied on: 20161121073359
Interesting camera that I had never seen.
Old, but not prewar. The Fed lenses have the new diaphragm scale (f 3,5 - 4 - 5,6...) which appeared in the early 50s.
Jacques.
Reply author: AlexanderK
Replied on: 20161121122850
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="MS Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Jacques M.</i>
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Interesting camera that I had never seen.
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Jacques,
you have never seen this camera before, because it doesn't exist at all.
It seems to be an attempt to tinker something like stereo camera from the parts of some special device (may be military).
Name "этюд" was engraved manually and not really neat.
P.S. It is only my opinion of course, but I think it is so.
Regards, Alexander
Reply author: Moxies
Replied on: 20161121181319
Reply author: Luiz Paracampo
Replied on: 20161121205207
Extraordinary! .....
At Photohistory. ru there are two different pictures of two different "etiud" models. The auctioned one is slightly different from both.
Regards
LP
Reply author: Luiz Paracampo
Replied on: 20161121205519
At least there were spoted three different hand made cameras! It should have more! the camera EXISTS!
LP
Reply author: nhchen
Replied on: 20161121222043
Reply author: Alfa2
Replied on: 20161122031826
There is focal plane shutter. I wonder how is construction.
Reply author: AlexanderK
Replied on: 20161122114613
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="MS Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Luiz Paracampo</i>
<br />Extraordinary! .....
At Photohistory. ru there are two different pictures of two different "etiud" models.
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Luiz,
there are two pictures of the same camera, one photo of the camera in leather case (above) and one without (below). And it seems to be the camera from the jp auction (in already worse condition).
So, there was only one home made "model", sorry.
Regards, Alexander
Reply author: Luiz Paracampo
Replied on: 20161123172628
1) This camera deserves a separate description page.
2) The camera was altered, once it was added a flash contact in the top panel (probably from Zorki)
3) Every detail conduct us to a "guillotine shutter" (seats behind the lens) as it is armed through Pin 7 and speed regulated through knob 6.
4) It is a kind of cloth shutter with slit regulation but not a focal plane as one can clearly see through pictures.
5) The camera uses some FED parts has a particular construction.
Engravings are clearly hand made but body and external chrome parts imposes special dyes demonstrating the probability that more than one was made.
6)Lenses seems to be coated denoting post war construction.
7)Who was A.Mishenko?
Who knows the hidden true story?
Best Regards
LP
Reply author: Vlad
Replied on: 20161123172704
Anyone has any info on A.Mishenko? Is he a known camera designer or just enthusiast? this is pretty cool though, seems like it's a historical home made camera [:)], photos seem to be from some magazine, most likely Soviet Photo...
Reply author: Zoom
Replied on: 20161124153200
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="MS Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Vlad</i>
<br />Anyone has any info on A.Mishenko? Is he a known camera designer or just enthusiast?
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An enthusiast.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="MS Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Vlad</i>
<br />... photos seem to be from some magazine, most likely Soviet Photo...
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Yes, "Sovetskoe Photo", 1959 year, issue 10, page 70.
Reply author: Vlad
Replied on: 20161124153323
Thank you Zoom!! I will look for that issue
Best regards,
Vlad
Reply author: Alfa2
Replied on: 20161125062145
Construction of the camera is described in link in 5th post of this thread by Moxies.
There is Затвор щелевой which means focal plane shutter, isn't it ?
Is it proper translation ?
Reply author: Zoom
Replied on: 20161125150349
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="MS Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Alfa2</i>
<br />There is Çàòâîð ùåëåâîé which means focal plane shutter, isn't it ?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
"slit shutter" == "ùåëåâîé çàòâîð".
"focal plane shutter" == "ôîêàëüíûé çàòâîð".
"focal plane slit shutter" == "ôîêàëüíûé ùåëåâîé çàòâîð".
Each term has its own meaning.
Reply author: Alfa2
Replied on: 20161128034230
Thank you for the translation.
But I can see only starnge sighns instead of cyrylic. [:(]
Reply author: Zoom
Replied on: 20161128054507
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="MS Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Alfa2</i>
<br />Thank you for the translation.
But I can see only starnge sighns instead of cyrylic. [:(]
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