Let's see your shooter for the FSU contest

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Are you ready? I'm ready! Fed 2 & Leningrad 6 light meter! Lets see yours!
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Behold the mighty tractor. Darn thing is bigger than many SLRs with that lens. Yes, I know it's missing one screw. Will plug the hole with some suitable kolkhoz soil.

Still MIA: Lens mount shims and take-up spool. Improvisation will have to save the May quota.

I only wish I did have some Kodachrome, not just a decorative case.
 

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Gary that Kiev 88 is one beautiful MF camera. I'd love to have one!
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Greg, That one was my first MF camera, it has the old screwmount lens mount which differs from my Kiev 60. The camera has a really unique feel to it, especially with that Mir 45 lens, like I'm holding some small projectile of some sort.

Gary
 
FED-S with FED 50/2.0 Summar clone and uncoupled FED 100/6.3



The top plate on this camera was ground flat and it was rechromed, ready to be engraved as a 'Leica' before the forgers noticed it was a FED-S. Yuri at Fedka has CLA'd it and confirmed its authenticity. It's smooth as butter now.

I'll be shooting the Military shot on Liberation Day, May 5th.

EDIT: the book in the back is 'A Russian Journal' by John Steinbeck, with pictures on Russia by Robert Capa. The two of them travelled Russia in 1947.
 
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Johan, congrats for finding the elusive "Komandirsky" FED. I can see that it has got 1/1000s shutter speed. Isn't that something!

Btw. I recently read the "A Russian Journal". I recommend it for anyone who is interested in Capa. It tells more about him as a person than his own book "Slightly Out of Focus" which I also like very much.

I was shooting today with this one:

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Decision, decisions...well the Kiev 4A and Zenith C are the only two with film in them at present. Being an SLR, I guess the Zenith would be not quite right so I guess the Kiev wins (at the moment).
 

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What's that capitalist viewfinder doing there 😀 ?

CLE-RF said:
FED-S with FED 50/2.0 Summar clone and uncoupled FED 100/6.3



The top plate on this camera was ground flat and it was rechromed, ready to be engraved as a 'Leica' before the forgers noticed it was a FED-S. Yuri at Fedka has CLA'd it and confirmed its authenticity. It's smooth as butter now.

I'll be shooting the Military shot on Liberation Day, May 5th.

EDIT: the book in the back is 'A Russian Journal' by John Steinbeck, with pictures on Russia by Robert Capa. The two of them travelled Russia in 1947.
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I was thinking I'd use my J-11 for some shots for the contest but I can't find my turret finder:bang:.
I am afraid it didn't make it through the fire I had earlier this year.
For general shooting, I can work around not having that finder, but for this "FSU" only exercise, I am now limited to 50mm. Not that much of a limit, really, but still it's annoying.
And I'm pretty sure I'll be spending rather more on the replacement than I spent the first time around.

Rob
 
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