Is it real (fed 6 ttl)

The buyer has promised to post pics of and from the FED 6 TTL, as well as the documents he won with it, on the Beststuff forum; meanwhile, there seem to be 2 more of these for sale, one of them was offered to another Beststuff member who was a low bidder on the first one.

John,
that Kadr sure looks nice - do you know what became of it? Did it ever go into production?

Roman
 
Sorry Roman, the KMZ official site gives no indication of what happened or where the prototypes went, no doubt they'll appear on ebay some time!!! Meanwhile here is a translation of what it says about the camera. KADR means to frame.

Practically unknown design of small-sized rangefinder camera with central interlens shutter and interchangeable optics. Regular objective - version of Helios -44 (2/58). In addition to regular, it was planned to have three interchangeable lenses: 2,8/37 (most probably - the version of Mir -1); 3,5/80; 5,6/115. Shutter speeds: the camera had from 1 to 1/800 seconds and B: the combined with the viewfinder range-finder, the system of an automatic change of the field of sight in the dependent on the fitted objective (three positions - most probably to the field-of-view angles of objectives into 58, 80 and 115 mm), synchronisation with the flash bulbs (cable connection), double exposure prevention the self – resetting frame counter and removable back. Project in the form of advertising materials, it is traditional - without any indication of manufacturing concern, it was represented on the world exhibition in Brussels 1958. Project is interesting by the selection of objectives with the specially designed interlens shutter with the broad range of speeds The declared regular objective of camera sequence - Helios -44 has large rear apical focal length and was projected for the application in the SLR cameras (working the distance of the version of Helios -44 for the camera start it is 42 mm).

Cover of the advertising prospectus, prepared to the world exhibition 1958 in Brussels

Looks as though it could have been a nice camera!! ah well c'est la vie!!
 
With those features it would probably have been to expensive to justify production in the Soviet Union...

Roman
 
The nearest thing is a camera outfit I owned up till a few years ago and now bitterly regret parting with. My East German Zeiss Werra 3 with its three lenses. 50mm Zeiss Tessar 2.8, 35mm Zeiss Flekagon and 100 Zeiss Cardinar. Coupled R/F shutter speeds 1 - 1/750, and frames in the v/f. A lovely camera, the only cameras which Zeiss themselves produced in Jena after the war.
 
Hey, I have got a Werra Matic (first type) with exchangeable lenses option - unfortunately, I only have the 50mm Tessar for it a nice camera indeed, on mine even the selenium cell meter still works...

Roman
 
Hi.
I have one of this cameras. Fed 6.
I hear only some of was made.
I'm iteresting, how match this camera can cost today?
Is somebody know?
 
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