Is it ugly ?

It's eye catching. Mine 4AM has dark red leather with the standard chrome face. I'm still trying to decide if I like it or not.
 
It's rather unusual, but not ugly. My Kiev-2A would need a little bit of black paint treatment, but is still in good shape :)
 
:cool: I like it. After seeing so many of those jaw droppimgly bad re-paints on ebay, this one is a refreshing change!
A few questions:
This is some kind of automotive paint?
Did your friend strip the chrome and then paint or paint over the chrome?
Can you see any of the red while looking through the viewfinder?
Very nice!
Rob
 
I like the color, but I would have carried it over to some other element on the camera so it looks more like a design scheme and less like he just painted one part.

How about doing, say, the accessory shoe or the self-timer lever in the same color?
 
Rob,

My friend didn't treat it as usual as what he did to cars, he just cleaned it because he believed the paint would stay on the surface firmly, and the paint is really shiny and very hard (as the surfaces of car, you know).

And yes, I guess I will put something else into it with the same colour, may be a leather strap...

Thank you for accepting my crazy idea.
 
What better color for a FSU camera? I agree that it'd look nice with more red--maybe some classy red leather from Aki-Asahi or cameraleather.com. Wait, never mind! I want to be the first to show off a red rangefinder :)
 
Well, I don't think it's "ugly"; it has "personality" ;) Hey, it's not blue+yellow or green+yellow or...well, nothing pretty much matches with yellow except white or black, does it?
 
I kind of like it! Reminds me of my days of being dumb watching pro wrestling with the NWO wolfpak. But... maybe I'm just a bit younger than everyone here.
 
brians said:
... maybe I'm just a bit younger than everyone here.
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Hey! No need to remind me.. I feel old enough as it is right now :(

I can remember we had horses in the street when I was a kid.. And I mean not these skinny ones you see nowadays to do dressage or jumping, but REAL horses for pulling loads of coal. Should have had a camera then..

Couple of skinnies in the attachment..
 
Have you thought of matching accessories (not shoes and handbag), but perhaps a lenshood in yellow or even puce? It would go well at Essendon in Victoria, Oz as red and black are the local AFL teams colours (or colors if you prefer).
 
derevaun said:
What better color for a FSU camera? I agree that it'd look nice with more red--maybe some classy red leather from Aki-Asahi or cameraleather.com. Wait, never mind! I want to be the first to show off a red rangefinder :)
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Yeah, red leather, red star, KGB engraving etc.

R.J.
 
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