Excuse me? FED what?

The fed 2 with the rewind lever, surprisingly, isn't the most questionable thing on that listing...
 
A member has a similar one its in the FSU section....Also it does not have the slow speeds. Seems that they have used up some old parts and tried to be fair to the customers
 
at the "authentic guide to Russian and Soviet cameras" by Princelle (p.104),says that is a quite uncommon model.
but it is not surely a fake.
 
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That will be a FED2L - essentially a FED3b with FED2 shutter, presumably made either to use up a stock of shutters, or to satisfy some demand for a cheaper FED3.
 
Oops, you are right, that is either a (e) or (f) depending on the counting scheme (there was no official labelling of the different generations, and with only regionally marketed models now surfacing on ebay, the post-mortem list of FED generations/variations is still growing).

The cyrillic letter L (for Lanthanum) was a name plate branding on some I-61 factory-equipped FEDs rather than a designator of a particular generation.

Sevo
 
Well... You learn something new every day.
I stared at that for a long time trying to figure out just how to classify it.

After all of that it's a kosher variant. Cool.
 
Excellent! Thank you all for the replys. it's not easy to find info on this perticuar model by google alone. i had no idea :)
 
The lever-wind FED 2 isn't uncommon. It's FED's equivalent to the Zorki Mir since it's really just a FED 3b with no slow speeds. The shutters were pretty much identical in all FED and Zorki models, only the speed selector and a few details varied. Models with slow speeds obviously have more speeds but that's about it.
 
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