Dralowid
Michael
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-R...3fc40b6&pid=100033&rk=2&rkt=4&sd=271839815125
Hmmm, looks interesting. If you add any number the end of the serial number it nearly makes sense but not quite...but then you could add a number to the beginning and get it right! 8xxx maybe?
Hmmm, looks interesting. If you add any number the end of the serial number it nearly makes sense but not quite...but then you could add a number to the beginning and get it right! 8xxx maybe?
Sid836
Well-known
There have been some early Fed cameras with three digit serials:
http://www.sovietcams.com/index.php?414372438
All of those that I have seen had a strange glossy finish instead of the ordinary vulcanite cover.
http://www.sovietcams.com/index.php?414372438
All of those that I have seen had a strange glossy finish instead of the ordinary vulcanite cover.
johannielscom
Snorting silver salts
It IS an early model, it has the sort-of 'free standing' RF window pane and the 'toilet-bowl' shaped housing on the shutter dial.
Later models had an angular housing on the shutter dial and the RF window's top was flush with the top plate.
The 'toilet bowl' shutter housing (labour-intensive round shape) was abandoned at about the same date as it was on the Leica II, impossible to say who went first with that.
Later models had an angular housing on the shutter dial and the RF window's top was flush with the top plate.
The 'toilet bowl' shutter housing (labour-intensive round shape) was abandoned at about the same date as it was on the Leica II, impossible to say who went first with that.
Dralowid
Michael
I agree that it is an early camera but it is not in the three digit range as per its serial number. It no longer gas the collimation hole or the 'kick in vf window moulding which is why I suggest around 8000...?
johannielscom
Snorting silver salts
Sure thing, I think your suggestion is very plausible indeed. I was merely thinking out loud when it came to the possibility of it being a forgery, like happens so often with Russian cameras.
IMHO opinion this is a legit one, for an 8000 range serial number indeed.