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low-profile FED lens choices?

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I have a FED-2b with the Industar-26m.
What are my options for a low-profile lens? I gather that an "Orion-15" is one choice. Are there others? I don't care much about focal length or speed - the priority is to make the overall camera 'thinner', for clandestine concealment.
-Pete
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Thanks folks. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the collapsible lenses are only "functional" when they're extended, right? To clarify what I want: it would be a lens that is focused at infinity, and the total thickness is short.
Pete
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Now that I think about it I think I-69 vignettes like crazy on full frame rangefinders because it's made for half-frame Chaika.. if that's something you're looking for... Smile And from what I remember in terms of what focus issues it has on full frame rangefinders - is the backfocus on Chaika is slightly off..
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Russar 5,6/20mm, Orion 6/28mm... They are the shortest.
The Jupiter 12 is too a good choice: more voluminous but less expensive.

Of course, the Fed 4,5/28mm. But it is quite impossible to find and was made too early for you (1938).

Jacques.

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The Industar-22's spring loaded locking tab will catch on the FED-2's vulcanite. The lens mount is set rather low, and there will be no rear clearance for the lens's locking pin. There was an I-10 collapsible made specifically for the FED-2. Their locks clipped on the front part so there is no protrusion in the rear anymore.

I-69 were made for 18X24 halfframe Chajka cameras... they will vignette terribly on the 24X36 format. And this is not just dimming- the black areas are non-image areas, so there is nothing there which can be corrected later. Stopping down the lens will not help. More details here:
http://www.zorkikat.com/industar-69-28mm/265/

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