Received a note from Oleg

[newspaperguy]

I've been hearing so much about the Russian winter that I dropped my favorite FSU repairer and dealer, Oleg Khalyavin a note, asking how he was doing.

His response was typical unflappable Oleg: "...Here is common wether - today is -21C, last week was -25-30 degrees celsius scale...

Not a problem, really... Both cars works good, heating at my new house working fine too!


Cold - is not too bad. Snow - is not too bad... Just a part of our life here.... "



Incidentally, if you are lusting for a Barnack clone, it looks like Oleg has the market cornered on Zorki 1 cameras and lenses.

http://www.okvintagecamera.com/zorki.php

I for one, much prefer the Zorki versions of the Leica II to any of the similar Feds that I've owned.

 

[KoNickon]

They have been having quite the winter in Eastern Europe. Is he in Russia or Ukraine?

 

[ray*j*gun]

So typical of Oleg.....we do take our life's gifts for granted sometimes.

I agree I think the Zorki's are a better copy of the Leica II.

 

[newspaperguy]

Oleg is in Yoshkar-Ola, a city in the
Republic of Mari El, Russian Federation,

Yep - Russia, as we used to call it.

 

[peter_n]

Very glad to hear he is OK written as only he can!

 

[KoNickon]

I'll have to pull out the atlas (or Google it).

 

[KoNickon]

Found it -- 500+ miles east of Moscow (!). That is one big country -- and that's still the European part.

 

[Thomas78]

Good to hear from Oleg!

The last two weeks we had also strong winter in central Europe.
We had several day with less than - 10 °C and even - 19 °C on monday morning.
(I am at a place halfway between Hamburg an Hannover at working days now.)

...
Incidentally, if you are lusting for a Barnack clone, it looks like Oleg has the market cornered on Zorki 1 cameras and lenses.

http://www.okvintagecamera.com/zorki.php

I for one, much prefer the Zorki versions of the Leica II to any of the similar Feds that I've owned.

I have two Zorki I and they are my favorite FSU cameras. I have them both in my camera bag right now, one with a I-22 the other one with a J-12.
(But I also like my FED-2 which was (and still is) my first real camera in 1991 (I got it a few months before the collaps of the SU). Oleg did a perfect job on it and one of the Zorkis.)

 

[certifiable]

Haha yeah it had been pretty cld here the last week or so... But those russians are used to it, you should see them drive on icy roads 😱

 

[gb hill]

My Fed 2 finally crapped out on me but my Zorki 2s is smooth as butter. Just loaded a 100asa film & screwed on the Jupiter 12. Realized I hardly have any shots taken with this lens.