fed and steam loco - anything in common ?!

[vanyagor]

Please look at my avatar carefully. Can you guess/see/find out what is in common between fed and my avatar?

(There is indeed something in common between them!)

Those who knew the answer anyway do not post it please, just post that you know it 🙂

 

[Keith]

They both cause problems for my aging eyes! 😀

 

[Ash]

They're both old and slow? (but a joy to use all the same 😉 )

Based on borrowed ideas from other designers?

 

[Keith]

Fed did experiment with a steam powered auto focus rangefinder ... and FSU locomotives never ran on time! 😉

 

[Ash]

They need constant re-adjustment and were built by people on very low wages?

 

[SteveM(PA)]

I used my Fed at a Brownie function last week and it scared the kids...😕
The steam engine breaks if you don't work the controls in precise order...😕
Or wait, you have a special "cowcatcher" edition camera? 🙂

 

[Spyderman]

Maybe the weight...? 😀

 

[pvdhaar]

Beats me.. Knob-wind? 😀

 

[Sparrow]

Both Russian copies of German designs?

 

[rbiemer]

19th century technology being talked about with 21st century technology?
Both(train and camera) built by orphans?
Obsolete but still useful and fun?
Made by people rather than by machine?
Songs written about both?
Rob
(I would have better ideas about this but it's 9:30 AM here and so I haven't been drinking yet😀 )

 

[Sparrow]

Both have a 3/8 tripod mount?
😀

 

[darkkavenger]

both produced at Kharkov by FED

 

[kully]

Neither would be out of place at a gurning competition?

 

[rbiemer]

Neither would be out of place at a gurning competition?

I don't have my OED handy; what is "gurning"?
Rob

 

[SteveM(PA)]

I used my Fed at a Brownie function last week and it scared the kids...😕

Oh, and everyone was covered with soot afterwards 😀

And hey, I bet you can't couple a Canon 135 to that engine either 🙂

 

[kully]

So... it's any expression?

In the Black Country the winner is the bloke (or blokess) who gets the bottom lip up the highest.

Bah, may be I've had too many pork scratchings already...

 

[varjag]

Hint: we at USSR weren't too inventive with product names.. 🙂

 

[ampguy]

if you don't set the speed before cocking (taking off?) it breaks?

we're big steam engine fans here, but I have no clue about the similarity with the FED, launched an industrial revolution of some sort?

 

[zhang xk]

Was the locomotive also named after a bad guy? I think they both look like piece of junk, but still do the job?:bang:

Zhang

 

[Bill K.]

They are both 100% mechanical, need no batteries / electricity to operate.

Bill K.