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Black paint

Black paint

I guess I should see if I can paint in the logo without making a mess. Given the size of the letters, I suspect it will have to be real liquid paint instead of the paint stick I use for filling in lens engravings. Of course it would have been a lot smarter if I had done that while I had the front plate off, but if I were smart, I probably wouldn't be putting so much time into clunky old cameras..

About paint: I notice that some of the really old FEDs seem not to have paint in the engravings on the shutter speed dial or on the lens. I have a FED-S with a couple contemporaty lenses, and there is no paint anywhere. It makes it pretty hard to see the focus and aperture rings. Was there some reason why the engravings were not filled?

Cheers,
Dez
 
Soviet finesse

Soviet finesse

An interesting thing I noticed when working with this camera is that some of the things done in the earlier all-Ukrainian Kievs were very well done indeed. One of the ways of identifying German parts in the very early Kievs is that the engraving on the shutter speed dial, and particularly on the rewind knob, is heavier and coarser-looking than on the Russian parts. Also the quality of the chrome on the early (say up to 1955) Kievs is a lot BETTER than that of the prewar Contaxes. I understand that Contaxes of that era plated chrome directly onto the brass rather than having a nickel priming layer, and as a result there are lots of late-30's Contaxes with spotty chrome. I have a few of these, and none of them has chrome of the quality of my Kiev 2's.

Cheers,
Dez
 
Dez said:
About paint: I notice that some of the really old FEDs seem not to have paint in the engravings on the shutter speed dial or on the lens. I have a FED-S with a couple contemporaty lenses, and there is no paint anywhere. It makes it pretty hard to see the focus and aperture rings. Was there some reason why the engravings were not filled?

Cheers,
Dez
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Don't know if there's a reason for it but my NKVD is the same, no paint in the markings. It may be just that it's so old and the original paint was poor, so there's none left now?

Nice work on the Kiev, by the way!
 
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Fresh off 'The Bay', dirty, stiff but functioning. 120xxx. For lovers of old UK TV sitcoms the label reads Reg Varney!

Michael
 
here is my zorki6 with industar 61 "zebra" posted with a bit delay, because i was waiting for the lens hood from hong kong.
i lubricated the lens with new grease and re adjusted it to infinity. the rf needed vertical alignment and horizontal alignment, too.
this is my first rf and i did the "repairs" by myself although i had some scruple.

isn't it a beauty :p
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kai.zorki said:
here is my zorki6 with industar 61 "zebra" posted with a bit delay, because i was waiting for the lens hood from hong kong.
i lubricated the lens with new grease and re adjusted it to infinity. the rf needed vertical alignment and horizontal alignment, too.
this is my first rf and i did the "repairs" by myself although i had some scruple.

isn't it a beauty :p
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Nice camera, the Zorki 6 is very underrated IMO. Well done on re-lubing the lens, in my experience I-26 and I-61 lenses always need it! You find it's a sharp and contrasty lens, enjoy. A Jupiter 8 always looks good on the Zorki 6 too...and works well.
 
Here's my latest miscreation! This was looking a bit tatty so I decided that after the mechanical work it's had it deserved to look prettier too. I removed the vulcanite, which was quite worn and was intending to re-paint the trim black. The paint did not take well to the alloy, however, so I decided to polish it instead. It looks pretty nice just bare, I think!
 

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My Zorki 1d. Not my favorit, but the 1c (which is a really nice working example) needs a new shutter-curtain.

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All these examples are making me want to start a collection!

Here's my Zorki 4 -and it's going to be with me forever!

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That's a very smart looking Zorki 4, Kier, for its age. Mine is a similar age (strap-lugs etc) but much tattier, though it works perfectly.
 
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