fed2 light meter

The only FSU cameras with a lightmeter are the Kiev 3, 3a, 4, 4M (and 5??) plus the FED 4 and 5, which came in versions with and without meter. All of those had uncoupled meters with a scale that is not in the viewfinder.
 
Hahaa, no problem. Learning to photgraph without a lightmeter will be worth the effort. Could you revommend any internetsite links with some advices for learning to take pictures without the ligtmeter (for example some tables for recommended speeds/apertures and estimated lighting conditions (cloudy, sunny, angle of the sun etc).

Thanks!
 
wolves3012 said:
The only FSU cameras with a lightmeter are the Kiev 3, 3a, 4, 4M (and 5??)
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And 5.

wolves3012 said:
plus the FED 4 and 5, which came in versions with and without meter. All of those had uncoupled meters with a scale that is not in the viewfinder.
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That's, of course, listing only interchangeable-lens rangefinders.

In that category, the only FSU camera with a meter readout in the finder that was actually produced in any numbers is, to my knowledge, the FED-11 "Atlas", of which about 23.000 or so were made. It's a leaf-shutter camera with an interchangeable Industar-61 lens. No other lens was apparently ever produced for the camera, so the value of having interchangeable lenses is a bit questionable. You can change between your favourite I-61s, of course, or hack a Jupiter-9 on the camera. I've seen it once here in Tashkent, and while it's an interesting camera, it apparently has a reputation for capriciousness and wasn't worth the $70 or so the seller was asking. (I guess I could have sold it on for more, but then there would have been trouble with exporting it and having to answer for the quality of a camera from an Uzbek flea market.)

If you don't need interchangeable lenses, there were a number of fixed-lens rangefinders with meters (Sokol, Voskhod, Zorki-10, plus several Siluets, Vilias and Elikons, to name just a few), most of which had some kind of exposure indication in the finder. SLRs are another story altogether again, of course.

Philipp
 
No working meter today? Then the Sunny 16 Rule should get you started if you are outside shooting in daylight.

The 16 rule relates to setting the exposure to f/16 with the shutter set to the reciprocal of the film speed when out in the open on a perfectly sunny summer day. How often does that happen?

So the Sunny 16 rule is a starting point. You definitely need to modify the rule when shooting in the northern hemisphere during the winter months, or dealing with side lighting of back-lit subjects.

This time of year, with the sun sitting low on the horizon, I use a Sunny 11 rule.

Beyond Sunny 16 - you'll have to memorize your exposure settings for certain situations both indoors and out.
 
I have one of the Fed-2s with the recessed cold shoe.
Any idea if the voigtlander VCII meter will fit? I'm thinking it'll be a problem.
 
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