just arrived in my collection

A Fed more arrived yesterday here.
Not so common: it's an early one without accessory shoe.
This one (# 7373) has an ordinary half turn Fed lens, contrarily to my # 7122 which has a one turn one.



Amitiйs. Jacques.

Special congratulations for your Sport, Fred! And once more time for your recent TSVVS!
I will have too to try and buy cameras at auctions...

Amitiйs. Jacques.

HI Jacques

Your FED is so nice too....
May be I will have surprises on next weeks..

An Revue Horizont (I got it but as i am out for ten days, I will make pics later....
One more TSVVS...... I am negociating it , and it is nice with all matching numbers...

So we have to wait about 15 days!!!!

Congratulations for your FED!!!

FRED

Another TSVVS... wow!
Always a 1950 one? Or a 1949?
Eager to see that!

And congratulations!

Amitiйs. Jacques.

It is a 1950
Body and Base plate are matching, I am sure

I have to wait about one week...to be sure

Fore sure I will give you some news...

Fred

Nice new cameras arrived in this thread :-)

My newest is a like new Leningrad from 1963. It came here with a blocked release button. This must happened very early because it looks as it was never used.

So I disassembled it and found the bug. A lever was gone out of it's position and blocked releasing the shutter.

It has an interesting engraving around the big wind knob which I have never seen before. I think collecting Leningrads could be interesting ...

After cleaning and reassembling it:



The engraving around the winding knob:




I have documented the reassembly, maybe it's interesting for you even it is only in german:

http://fotos.cconin.de/kameras/leningradrepair/index.htm

Ulrich

http://fotos.cconin.de

Happy to see you again, Ulrich, and bravo for this immaculate Leningrad!
The inscription reads "made in USSR", I think?

Amitiйs. Jacques.

Jacques,

I meant I have never seen this engraving on a Leningrad before :-)

Ulrich

http://fotos.cconin.de

Arrived today, complete with original cap and original case too....
Numbers inside camera and base plate are matching.(both n°90) as my other TSVVS (729) has two different numbers (15 in camera and 91 on base plate)
It works well at all speeds and rangefinder is OK. I just need to clean a little bit!

Fred

Not another TSVVS but quite interesting too....

Fred

Yesterday I got two things for my collection - both rather ordinary:

Fed 2 type C, from 1956 (11188):


And a 1993 Zenit 12XPS Fotosniper (a bit too young for this site as it's "Made in Russia") - unfortuantly without the box as my ES/FS3 has:


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You can call me "Yuri"...

SSSR collections so far:
1956 FED 2 C
1978 Zenit E
1979 Zenit FS-3 Photosniper (ES)
1980 Zenit EM Olympic
1980 Zenit E Olympic
1993 Zenit FS-12-3 Fotosaiper (12XPS)
a Zenit UPA 5M enlarger
... plus some "foregien" stuff.

Fred,

great, 2 TSVVS's :-) I wonder if we are the only guys who collect them :-D

Ulrich

http://fotos.cconin.de

Arrived 2 days ago... A like new KIEV III from 1953 with DIN engraving and Zorki ZK lens from 1950. It seems to be a real combination of camera and lens (why should someone change the lens to a ZK-lens?). But there are 3 years difference between camera and lens date. Could it be that the soviets put the old lenses on the first with old Contax parts made KIEV III? I have not seen this combination before.

Here are some pics, it looks stunning in my eyes:







Ulrich

http://fotos.cconin.de

Fred, the Horizont Revue is interesting. Mine has number 6903353 so only 600 numbers away from yours.

Ulrich

http://fotos.cconin.de

Jшrgen,

nice camera finds. I hope that you have enough room in your closet for the next at least 50 soviet cameras you WILL buy

Ulrich

http://fotos.cconin.de

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Originally posted by uwittehh

Jшrgen,

nice camera finds. I hope that you have enough room in your closet for the next at least 50 soviet cameras you WILL buy

Ulrich

http://fotos.cconin.de

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Hi Ulrich,
I am running out of space on my camera shelf, even tho I am only onto 6 Sovjet cameras; one of them is at my "museum" shelf, as it's not working atm - and my oldest PhotoSniper is in it's box under the shelf - so those two doesn't take space - but my extra lenses and other cameras takes alot of space - but the newest Fotosniper does take most space, as I chosed to put it together as I don't have a box for it - then I want people to see how cool it looks!
But I will have more ;)

I even started to get a French photographer into the Sovjet cameras too! He started to ask about my Zenit EM, because he was thinking of ordering a 412, in the end he ordered it - and also bought a Zenit E with an I-50 "pancake" lens - and now is looking for a Fed as well.

I don't know what my next Sovjet should be, but I am going back to Sankt-Peterburg soon, so if I will find something good I will get that. I already have two enlarger lens waiting for me as I needed to change the one on my Zenit UPA-5 because of fungus, so I am back to use that giant Meopta that I wanted to give a vacation because of the neat size of the UPA.

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You can call me "Yuri"...

SSSR collections so far:
1956 FED 2 C
1978 Zenit E
1979 Zenit FS-3 Photosniper (ES)
1980 Zenit EM Olympic
1980 Zenit E Olympic
1993 Zenit FS-12-3 Fotosaiper (12XPS)
a Zenit UPA 5M enlarger
... plus some "foregien" stuff.

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Originally posted by uwittehh

Fred,

great, 2 TSVVS's :-) I wonder if we are the only guys who collect them :-D

Ulrich

http://fotos.cconin.de

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I would say that there is many reasons why it is so many here.
TSVVS is so extreme, that not many know about it. There has been so much fakes, that many may even take all of them as fakes. As a matter of fact not even here it is certain where it was made! So the real market may be very small, unless you sell in the web and have a good description & reputation.

BTW: I also want one, and even a fake would be OK in my vitrine, as here in Finland only a handful know about TSVVS existence, and only I would know it as a fake

Best regards,
Juhani

Hi All

I agree with Juhani....We all know here what is a TSVVS...

But, what is sure, is that people who have sold me the cameras knew very well the value and the rarity..... So we are not alone...

The most surprising this year in Bievres was these 2 cameras to sell. It was first year I see TSVVS in Biиvres!
Sellers were both Italian.
One is a collector and has made an article in Leica magazine in 1997 about camera I bought him. I have to copy this article and to put it in the wiki.
Second is also an Italian guy , and I think Aidas knows him well as he has bought him some rare cameras in the past.
I bought this second camera after Bievres.

I think and hope these 2 cameras are not fakes...Princelle told me they are genuine.... But who could be sure???????

Fred

Hi all

I put an article on Wiki about TSVVS n°729
http://www.ussrphoto.com/Wiki/default.asp?WikiCatID=39&ParentID=4&ContentID=1560&Item=TSVVS+Article++Leica+Magazine+

Enjoy!!

Fred