just arrived in my collection

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Originally posted by uwittehh
...FED 1 one. It's only 9 numbers away from mine...

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Ha, in time we will have so many near numbers collected here that it is easier to count the missing ones

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Originally posted by uwittehh
Why didn't you by the sport or the FED S? What were the prices at the collectors fair in Helsinki?

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Wallet... the prices were reasonable for such rarities, but a huge pile of money though

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Originally posted by Vlad
Is that Smena repaired or this metal bar supposed to be there?

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I can not see anything wrong comparing to Aidas website, other than using a Zenit battery tube as "foot". I didn't notice that the camera itseцf has a clevery hidden foot

Best regards,
Juhani

Juhani, sorry I thought that metal piece on front was a repair job, but now I see that's just a part of a camera I don't have one so I'm not very familiar with these cameras..

Zenit-122 Pobeda - why is it that they all are found in Finland?

Vlad

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Originally posted by Vlad
Zenit-122 Pobeda - why is it that they all are found in Finland?

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Vodka tourists visiting Leningrad

Best regards,
Juhani

hey...I found mine in Paris
by the way : I am looking for a cyrrilics print "Zenit 122" ...if anyone know , please tell me

Hmm ok . Still I haven't yet seen a Z-122 Pobeda sold inside the former USSR .

Alain, I'll keep an eye for you for that 122 if you keep an eye out for me where to buy Elikon-3 (if you have one for yourself of course already).

Vlad.

My Elikon-3 is from Germany, or most likely from former DDR

Best regards,
Juhani

Yea I've been hunting for that camera for over a year already...

hey hey...
I just bought Elikon 3,quite new (but badly made!) , two weeks ago in Russia
now my Elikon serie is complete...
Sometime , I am lucky !

Juhany
Congratulations for your acquisition
According to my still "expert eyes" you have the gratest rarity on the Sport camera (regretably you didn't buy) once its normal lens is made by Kazan. an extremely rare early postwar assembly
regards
LP

Tomlinson
My hurras on your acquisition the highly praised 1944 PhotoSniper
Regards
LP

And now the latest cameras in my collection:



The early FED-1a (No.5298) with green curtains, case, passport and original box.




The "NO NAME" Kiev (No.6306313) with Lens Sonnar Zeiss-Opton 1,5/50.



Regards, Alexander

Mmmm Alexander!
Thanks for your two cameras!
Possible to have more details about the passport of your Fed 1a (date, serial number of the lens).
And why green curtains?

Amitiйs. Jacques.

Hello Jacques,
sorry, it was my mistake. It is not a passport, but simply a user manual. The serial number of the lens is 5977. Why the curtains are green I don't know, but they are really green :


I have found these "green" curtains also in Princelle: "FED type 1a variant 8" (p.94)



Regards, Alexander

Wow, those curtains ARE from 75 years ago...
But is there any early FEDs, noname-Kievs and Kyivs left to others than us? Or do the others need them?

Best regards,
Juhani

Alexander,

as I know they have installed green curtains when they didn't have the stuff for black curtains. So it's a real rarity, congratulations.

Your Kiev no name is another nice find, I have looked for it so long but I have never found any... Where do you have these 2 cameras from? :-)

Ulrich

http://fotos.cconin.de

Juhani,

about 6000 FED 1a do exist, so there are a lot of them for us... :-) Ok, nobody knows how many survived the years and the war. But I think that there are more than 1000 or 2000 left for the collectors.

KIIVS are more rare, we don't know the number of built items until now. But.. nobody else than us needs them ;-)

Ulrich

http://fotos.cconin.de

The engraving on the top plate appears to be the same as a model 1b (I think).
Is this correct, and if so are there any numbers as to how many had this engraving?

Thanks,
Steve

Hello,
About your Fed, Alexander, I think it is a rarity. Anyway, I never saw another one: it has a "brushed" chrome which could be found (till now) only on 1a with vertical engravings.
This camera should be one of the first 1b, before the one with normal chrome (and always without accessory clip). And after the serial number of the lens, it is original.

As Ulrich says, the 1a are rare: about 6000 were originally made. And a good part of them were probably refurbished at the factory.

The first 1b (YCCP inscription, without clip) are much rarer: probably 1500 to 2000 were produced. As for yours, it is the first!

Concerning the curtains, there is always a camera for sale on eBay with such green ones: a 1d serial number 13xxxx (probably repairs). It is the first time too that I see that on a 1a/1b.

So: Congratulations!

Amitiйs. Jacques.

Jacques: there does exist cromed ones of 1A (type 6), see previous page. And according to Aidas "Serial Number Range: #5.800-#6.000 Quantity: appr. 200 units".
Like Ulrich says it is also my opinion that a great lot of the early FEDs "died" already in WWII, and how many have been rebuilt after that & thus lost their old identity?


Best regards,
Juhani

Hi Juhani,
There does exist brushed chrome (or galvanized) and plain chrome 1a: I absolutely agree.
But if Alexander's one is a 1b as it seems, it is the first time I see a galvanized 1b!!

As for the died and risen from the dead: impossible to answer your question!
Amitiйs. Jacques.