FSU rangefinders

[Mauro]

I spent the Easter day in San Marino as a tourist, with my new Zorki 4 hanging from my neck. When I entered into a gift shop in order to buy cards and stamps (BTW, I like collecting stamps and San Marino issues wonderful stamps), the owner stopped me asking if I like the Leica clones.
Within few minutes we started discussing about FSU rangefinders and he confessed that he owns about 200 cameras!!!He confirmed that the lens quality is really good, and he appreciate mostly the Jupiter 12 on its zorkis.
In short: I spent 1 minute for postcard, and we talked 30 minutes about photography.
That's nice, I left the shop with a large smile on my face!

 

[Spyderman]

Great story. FSU RF's are really great conversation starters... 😉

 

[payasam]

Over the period 1985-2002, many people took my M3 to be a "Russian camera", and in the last couple of years I have been asked if my Zorki 1 is a Leica. Few people identified either correctly.