A Fed 1 repaint - CLA'd by okvintagecamera

[aw614]

Man threads like yours and this older one from 2006, Leica LTM - Making a Leica Standard clone

Make me want to do something similar to my Zorki 1, after removing my damaged rangefinder assembly. I didn;t realize the rangefinder assembly itself varied on different year Zorkis so I ended up getting a rangefinder that didn't fit my 1956 dated Zorki.

Going to be watching your progress on this.

 

[renguney]

Man threads like yours and this older one from 2006, Leica LTM - Making a Leica Standard clone

Make me want to do something similar to my Zorki 1, after removing my damaged rangefinder assembly. I didn;t realize the rangefinder assembly itself varied on different year Zorkis so I ended up getting a rangefinder that didn't fit my 1956 dated Zorki.

Going to be watching your progress on this.

Wow, I never seen that thread before. Thanks for showing me that one!

 

[renguney]

After reading that thread I got cringed so hard. That does not look like a ''mod'' to me. Quite poor work done, by only putting some weird tapes and plastic things over the camera. Really sad. I have seen the ''Russian made'' ones before (referring the pics shown on the page 1) They didnt meet my expectations neither. Poor disgusting ''computer font'' engravings, and overall aesthetically poorly made designs. I'm not saying making something nice is cheap. But if it's a camera you are doing for yourself which you will be using for decades... It's worth every single penny. Nobody can explain me that kind of an attitude and work towards cameras.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

After reading that thread I got cringed so hard. That does not look like a ''mod'' to me. Quite poor work done, by only putting some weird tapes and plastic things over the camera. Really sad. I have seen the ''Russian made'' ones before (referring the pics shown on the page 1) They didnt meet my expectations neither. Poor disgusting ''computer font'' engravings, and overall aesthetically poorly made designs. I'm not saying making something nice is cheap. But if it's a camera you are doing for yourself which you will be using for decades... It's worth every single penny. Nobody can explain me that kind of an attitude and work towards cameras.

All of the pictures in this thread as any other FSU "mods" (dumping black glossy paint) are about this:

 

[renguney]

I guess you're not able to do any of them even the bad ones

 

[Dralowid]

An example of a DIY shutter release collar. There are plenty of different designs out there.

 

[renguney]

Yes, I'll try to scale it and make a diagram for the shutter collar also, just like some other newly made parts to include on my blog post so people wouldnt need to buy all these parts to be able to scale them. They can just use the diagrams and pass the R&D budgeting that I had to spend in the future.

An example of a DIY shutter release collar. There are plenty of different designs out there.

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[Valkir1987]

Fantastic result and workmanship so far! I'm looking forward to the final result.