just arrived in my collection

Last for the FSU cameras, a curious Kiev 1950. It was equipped with a "no name" front plate when I bought it. Happily, I had a correct 1950 Kiev front to give it back to its identity.



This Kiev 1950 was mounted mainly with Dresden parts: finder, shutter box, etc. No inscription behind the shutter box:



If you are interested, I can open a special thread about this camera.

Amitiйs. Jacques.

Ok, i feel that my "new" old Zorki 3M should be officially introduced in this thread.







Marco

just arrived, an Ajax F21.



if you want to read more about this camera http://www.135compact.com/ajax_f21.htm

I'm waiting for a slitter to cut 21mm film...



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Fine!
And thanks for your detailed explanations on your site.
Hope you will post photos made with that camera.

Amitiйs. Jacques.

Hi Jacques, can you please open a thread regarding your Kiev that had no-name plate, can you please post a photo of a the noname plate that you have left over, especially I am interested in the bottom portion of it that has a cut out for the tripod socket. Thank you!

Xya, Marcolin, nice Zorki 3M and F21!! Congratulations!

Best regards,
Vlad.

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Originally posted by Jacques M.


Fine!
And thanks for your detailed explanations on your site.
Hope you will post photos made with that camera.

Amitiйs. Jacques.

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as soon as the film slitter arrives, I will try it and show some photos. amitiйs. reinhard

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Hi all!!

Seems to be an early one

Fred

Hi Fred,
could you please post a photo from bottom? Thank you.

Regards, Alexander

Hi Alexander

I cannot take picture at the moment,
On bottom, there is only the tripod nut.
There is not button as we can see on wiki

I'll take a pic later

Best regards

Fred

a simple Praktina IIA ...



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Only dead fish follow the stream ...

Two new cameras:

A very early Zorki C (5500571) with the short release button:





And a Zorki 6 with nice latin name:



Ulrich

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Look at this, a FED 1e Berdsk like new. The chrome looks really bright.









Ulrich

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Shining new, Ulrich! But you have a special secret to prepare your cameras for photo!
There is a "new" Fed 1b here, s/n 11823. Not far from your 11959, Jed! It will be perfect between my 10020 (window with a hollow on the upper part) and my 12840 (no hole on back; brown vulcanite).
A photo:

And another one:



Jacques.

Bought my 1st RF-Leica, nice Xmas-gift

And got a football shaped parcel from USA:



This one returned home, by the serial it was mine some years ago



Never had this Latin version


Best regards,
Juhani

Hi Juhani! Glad you got the package safe and sound! , it is very funny that you got your camera back considering the fact that I bought it from you originally! LOL! I have gotten a duplicate since then so this one went back into trading pile. I believe the same thing happened with me and Ulrich at some point in the past where I got my own camera back. Very funny! The Soviet Collector's cycle!

Enjoy and congratulations!

Best regards,
Vlad.

Jacques, nice early FED. Congratulations! There is no secret about preparing them for the photos, just don't use flash or light from the front :-)

Ulrich

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Vlad, yes, that happened to me too. Recently I bought a KIIV IIIa on ebay and wondered when I looked at my camera list that I've sold it in 2006. Now I got it back for less money :D

Ulrich

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Juhani, nice Leica. I think you feel that an original Leica is smoother than the FEDs and Zorkis :-)

Ulrich

http://fotos.cconin.de

Jacques and all others, another shiny camera :)

Some months ago a very early Contax II arrived here, serial Z 50474. As I know the numbering starts with Z 50000, so it seems to be the 474th Contax II! It comes together with a Jena Contax box, original Jena Contax manual and early postwar Sonnar 4/135. A strange combination but I am happy about the box and the manual, only a few manuals are known to exist.

It seems that the camera was not much used:









Ulrich

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