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Wow Shocked! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

During years I was lucky to see only 3 of them. Viktor Suglob has 2 different versions, one more came for sale on Molotok just few months ago (unfortunately I was too late to buy one ...Tongue).

Only few hundreds of Elikon-2 were produced, so lucky you ... Smile

Best Regards,
Aidas
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Unless there's nobody here that has a finnish friend to bid on it it is mine Big smile
Here the local market for things like this is so small that I am bound to get it Wink
But next sunday I will know it for sure, anyway I have placed a bid that is double what any other local bidder would Shocked
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Juhani,

Indeed, you are very close to complete your great Elikon collection! And only few "common" cameras are still missing Smile ... Orion-35C, Elikon-1 and Elikon-5 Big smile. As far as I know, Viktor doesn't have Elikon-1 in his collection yet, so the question is still open.


Regards,
Aidas
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Zoom: this picture is again one of those that have been spread so around the internet that only a hnadful know where the origin is. If you insist I will delete it from my files?
Aidas: what is Elikon-5, as I have never seen anything about that anywhere? Or only a joke like Smena-13... And only place where I found Orion-35C mentioned was yours, yet no picture nor anything if it has been somewhere sometime?

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Originally posted by cedricfan

Zoom: this picture is again one of those that have been spread so around the internet that only a hnadful know where the origin is.


Origin? Scanned from the catalogue "Still cameras and binoculars from the USSR". TENTO (v/o Technointorg), USSR, Moscow (not dated).
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Originally posted by cedricfan

Zoom: this picture is again one of those that have been spread so around the internet that only a hnadful know where the origin is. If you insist I will delete it from my files?
Aidas: what is Elikon-5, as I have never seen anything about that anywhere? Or only a joke like Smena-13... And only place where I found Orion-35C mentioned was yours, yet no picture nor anything if it has been somewhere sometime?

Smena rules



Juhani,
If I remember correctly, Viktor Suglob was sending Christmas cards with picture of Elikon-5. The only thing I know it's somehow similar to Elikon-535 camera, but not the identical one. And I was lucky to hold the real Orion-35C in my very own hands, during my last stay in neighbour Minsk.

Regards,
Aidas
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And now at home Cool
Added pics & edited Wiki:

"A close version of Elikon/Elikon-1. Differences are:
-No rangefinder, only meter-scale
-Lens has same name Minitar-2 but f/3,8 instead of f/2,8
-ISO instead of GOST
-No lens data ring around front lens, smaller front lens

Serial #9186757 (Juhani)
Serial #9184808 (Finnish collector)

Sidenote: Instructions booklet says "Vilejskij zavod Zenit" as manufacturer!"


http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/Elikon2c.JPG



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Passport show TY******-86
TY is Technicheskie Ysloviya(Technical Conditions), as I remember, and 86 is a year when those conditions was signed up; that I know on sure,
Does it mean that camera was developed in 1986 and did not produce until 1992?

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