just arrived in my collection

Thanks!
Jacques, the book is "Camera FED" by Bunimovich D., 1938.
Pages from 89 to 99 are dedicated to reproduction photography.

Wow! (to the reproduction stand) Would you be able to add this to Wiki catalog here?

Thanks!
Vlad

G'day Vlad!
Done.

In 1933, the FED has not yet been issued, its accessories were produced in 1937. So write Bunimovich in 1933 there was still nothing!

Yes, Alexey...
I wondered about the date. But I have no book of Bunimovitch, whatever the date is...

Amitiйs. Jacques.

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Originally posted by Aleksandrov66

the book is "Camera FED" by Bunimovich D., 1933 (not 1938!).

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Sorry, but this book is from 1938 and not from 1933!
And pages from 89 to 99 are really dedicated to reproduction photography.

Regards, Alexander

Alexander, Jacques, Alexey...
As far as i understand, there are two types of the book - some books have 1933 on the first page, some have 1938. The interesting moment is that all of them got 1937 or 1938 on the last page. So, in fact all of the books were physically produced in 1937-1938, but a few of them got 1933 on the first page. I suppose this is just a massive misprint.
Some photos:

Hi Aleksandrov!

Certainly Alexander and Alexey are right.
It should be a misprint, and the last page gives the good date.
As if misengravings, on some Fed covers, were not enough....

Amitiйs. Jacques.

one can read all book at
http://www.sovietcamera.su/src/Camera_FED.pdf
(1938 edition)

although I do not collect russian cameras (only some russian lenses), I came across a very nice one some days ago and finally I could not resist. it just arrived.


it came with an old zorki box and the kind seller added a copy of a zorki manual.


it has its leather case


and its original lens.


serial no. 128213, which makes it 1939 according to what I have found.


it seems as if everything is working fine. maybe it has not been used much.


I will try to load a roll next week and test it.


lens no. 125489.


there was a document folded into the leather case. according to the seller it says that the camera was sold in 1942 in a moscow commission shop for 850 roubels. it seems as if it has not worked much since then. anyway, it wasn't expensive and I look forward to try it out.

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Congrats, Reinhart, and thanks for the passport, always very useful for these cameras.
But I read 1949 for the date, no? It should be amazing for a Fed NKVD (probably) made in 1940
Amitiйs а toi.

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Originally posted by Jacques M.

...But I read 1949 for the date...

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hi jacques,

I think it's 42. there is a "9" above and several "2"s in the receipt. I attach a bigger image.

amitiйs

reinhard



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The line above the date means the lens?

That would be quite strange to have the lens before the date with the first 2 digits missing and then after the date the body with complete serial.

However, congratulations, very nice Fed.

Everyone started with the first camera, hahaha, enjoy collecting.

hi lenny,

that's a funny coincidence indeed, I had not seen it. but I can't read russian, so I do not know what the paper really says...

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Yes, Lenny, this passport is a bit strange for a prewar Fed.
It's the first time I see a price, and thsre is no address of factory, for example.
Would it be a bill rather than a passport?

Anyway, it would be useful to have a translation of this paper. If somebody could... Thanks!

From this passport i can see the camera was bought in Moskow in 1942 in Московское управление торговли культтоварами.
There are signs of inspector and of consignor. The paper is rather something like good issue from shop.
Such goods as FED was not on free market. There was no free market in USSR and distribution of such important goods like FEDs was controlled by state administration.

Maybe this is from a workshop. This lens was calibrated to the camera body. No other stamp was made on the lens, so you keep this receipt to document that calibration was made.
To me, it was in 1940, the year when this body should be produced. Maybe a replacement for a faulty body. Who knows, translation is needed.
This would explain why only the last 4 digits of the lens were written on the receipt. If this camera/lens combination would be original and new, the lens should have a much higher serial number. Could be, this is the lens the previous owner bought new and after his new camera body got faulty he got a replacement camera body calibrated to his old lens.

I could read almost all words. I cannot read the first word covered by ink. Second word coverd by ink is подробное which means "detailed".
In title is written that this is receipt from special shop number 18 which is placed in Moscow in Московское управление торговли культтоварами. I can see number of camera but I don't see last 3 digits of the lens here.
There is signature of director of the shop too below signatures of inspector and of consignor. There is a price given in digits and in words.
Below there is empty fields to put new price and signs.

the seller, who is a russian from moscow, told me that this is a receipt from a commission shop (which is a second hand shop). they were quite common in russia and they still are. in those days it was mandatory to make any second hand sale via a commission shop.

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So, it was sold in 1942 as a second hand camera.
The lens can have been changed, of course, as Lenny says: we don't have the original passport. But it can be original too: the lens has often a higher s/n than the body, but not always.