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If you are bothered by early FED-2's narrow and low-positioned cold shoe
...and you are lazy, don't want to do big surgery about it.
There is an easy fix:
http://poppelyang.tumblr.com/post/112783511908/lazy-mans-fix-issues-of-early-fed-2s-low-and
This is a FED-2 rangefinder camera, early version. Not your most reliable FSU rangefinder but a nice looking one. The biggest feature of this camera is: it works when it works.
However, the early FED-2s have a narrow and lower-positioned cold shoe. There are two problems with the cold shoe:
1. It's narrow enough to reject many accessories.
2. When mounting some accessories, like external viewfinders, they wouldn't have enough clearance and hit on the top plate.
I have some 35mm viewfinders: No.1 and 2's feet are too fat for the cold shoe, and No.3 would hit on the top plate due to a larger protruding part and can't be mounted properly. Only No. 4 fits my FED-2's cold shoe. However it's a heavy and bulky "universal viewfinder", which is equipped with many focal lengths I don't use with rangefinder cameras.
I saw people did complicated modification to either elevate or enlarge the cold shoe, however you need chainsaws and gas masks to do the job. As a lazy man, I took a tour on eBay and found something called "Hot Shoe Mount Adapter". It costs 0.7 euro
It's basically a hot shoe with a very thin foot. It's designed for some flash unit but I don't care. What I care about this adapter are:
1. It seems to fit the cold shoe on FED-2.
2. It elevates a short distance, which would give clearance for larger accessories and prevent them from hitting on the top plate.
When I got the adapter (after two weeks waiting), I actually noticed the foot on the adapter is too thin for FED-2's cold shoe.
Zhuang Zhou once said: When you're making a statue, make the nose bigger and the eyes smaller. If the nose is too big, you can always narrow it. If the eyes are too small, you can always enlarge them.
So I cut off a piece of cardboard and put it in the cold shoe as a shim.
Mount the shim first.
Then mount the adapter. Nice and tight.
Put on the viewfinder you like.
Elevated and cleared.
Enjoy your shooting!
...and you are lazy, don't want to do big surgery about it.
There is an easy fix:
http://poppelyang.tumblr.com/post/112783511908/lazy-mans-fix-issues-of-early-fed-2s-low-and
This is a FED-2 rangefinder camera, early version. Not your most reliable FSU rangefinder but a nice looking one. The biggest feature of this camera is: it works when it works.
However, the early FED-2s have a narrow and lower-positioned cold shoe. There are two problems with the cold shoe:
1. It's narrow enough to reject many accessories.
2. When mounting some accessories, like external viewfinders, they wouldn't have enough clearance and hit on the top plate.
I have some 35mm viewfinders: No.1 and 2's feet are too fat for the cold shoe, and No.3 would hit on the top plate due to a larger protruding part and can't be mounted properly. Only No. 4 fits my FED-2's cold shoe. However it's a heavy and bulky "universal viewfinder", which is equipped with many focal lengths I don't use with rangefinder cameras.
I saw people did complicated modification to either elevate or enlarge the cold shoe, however you need chainsaws and gas masks to do the job. As a lazy man, I took a tour on eBay and found something called "Hot Shoe Mount Adapter". It costs 0.7 euro
It's basically a hot shoe with a very thin foot. It's designed for some flash unit but I don't care. What I care about this adapter are:
1. It seems to fit the cold shoe on FED-2.
2. It elevates a short distance, which would give clearance for larger accessories and prevent them from hitting on the top plate.
When I got the adapter (after two weeks waiting), I actually noticed the foot on the adapter is too thin for FED-2's cold shoe.
Zhuang Zhou once said: When you're making a statue, make the nose bigger and the eyes smaller. If the nose is too big, you can always narrow it. If the eyes are too small, you can always enlarge them.
So I cut off a piece of cardboard and put it in the cold shoe as a shim.
Mount the shim first.
Then mount the adapter. Nice and tight.
Put on the viewfinder you like.
Elevated and cleared.
Enjoy your shooting!
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