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FS 2

1944-1945

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Camera FED with special reflex housing.

Lens: GOI 4.5/300, mounted on wooden stock, with metal trigger lever.

The outfit was made for "photo reconnaissance from land-based observation posts, by realizing fast and magnified photography of distant objects. The outfit can be used manually by utilizing the gun stock, without the help of any stands or tripods."

By end of war there was a number of these cameras released by KMZ.

(source: Alexander Bronstein via www.photohistory.ru)

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