Fed 1 V Zorki 1

[shootodog]

thank you.

i have asked my friend to lend me his FED2B for a week to try.

 

[ZorkiKat]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Yuri Boguslavsky on his web site, www.fedka.com: "I chose the name Fedka because this nickname was given to the first FED rangefinders made at the Kharkov work commune in the early 1930's." I cannot be certain, but it is possible that in Russian the suffix "-ka" forms a diminutive.
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Yuri and I talked about this years ago, when the FED-Zorki Survival Site was started.

The Fedka.com site also has Oskar Fricke's piece about the F E Dzershinski commune and FED cameras, it was mentioned that FEDKa was among those considered as the name of the "Soviet Leica".

 

[payasam]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]No argument: but a nickname is a nickname.

"...but it is possible that in Russian the suffix "-ka" forms a diminutive."

Would some speaker of Russian please come in? I have in mind names and words like babushka, Anushka, Laika...
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[dll927]

Like most things economic, prices tend to reflect availabilty, also known as rarity. As for that FED/Zorki, it was a "cross-over" model, and is quite rare, therefore expensive.

The Zorki-4 was the model produced in largest numbers, or over the longest time, which makes them among the less expensive - and they are pretty good cameras.