Ron (Netherlands)
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Hmm, the one in the middle of the bakelite row hopefully isn't a fake as I have several of those ...
Erik.
You can "easily" find out if they are fake, at least the ones that do not break when dropped, are fake: they are made of a softer kind of plastic. The softies come mostly for free with lenses or other stuff......
from all caps I've seen and had in my hands I find this FED one the nicest:
Oops, nearly forgot; here's the FED version. Apologies for the flea market lens hood.
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Regards, David
PS. I should have photographed it with a pre-war FED body to be more accurate but it's late at night and this is one of my stock pictures. It'll be on a well known search engine's pages soon and then all over the world. And that does annoy me...