"New" FSU camera?

rbiemer

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While I was browsing ebay I found this:
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And decided to buy it.

Anyone seen the "Russian" camera shown on the cover?

Once I get the magazine, I'll scan the article so I can share it if folks are interested.
Rob
 
Wow - back in the day those Fawcett soft cover books
sold for .75
Now they market them at $9.95
I'm sure not making 10+X what I was then.
 
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When was that? Asahi was being marketed as Pentax, I thought, by at least the mid 60s even in the USA.
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Not sure of the date of this handbook, I'll have to wait to see it in person.
Also not sure this was a US publication anyway; I don't remember seeing any FSU cameras written about( or marketed) here until the 80s.

My absolute guess is that this is sometime in the early 60s.
Rob
 
The camera on Photo is `Kometa` (Комета or Comet) - prototype of rangefinder with semi-automatic non-TTL exposure control shown on event in Bruxelles in 1958.

This is rangefinder construction which merged Leica and Contax designs. System were supposed to have a range of lenses between 20 and 135mm.

2 units were possibly made.
 
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And, according to the Google translated version of Zenit's page:
Structurally Comets bayonet mount is almost identical to "M", was first applied in 1954 in the camera Leica-M3.
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Interesting "could have been" camera.
Rob
 
QUAsit said:
The camera on Photo is `Kometa` (Комета or Comet) - prototype of rangefinder with semi-automatic non-TTL exposure control shown on event in Bruxelles in 1958.

This is rangefinder construction which merged Leica and Contax designs. System were supposed to have a range of lenses between 20 and 135mm.

2 units were possibly made.
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Thanks. I had heard of the Comet line, but have never seen one being used.
 
Sorry this took so long.
So I got the magazine, it is from 1958. NO camera ads. Spiratone had an ad, as did Edmund Surplus--now know as Edmund Scientific--and Dr. Grabow--that one's tobacco pipes. And a few for more magazines/how to books by the same publisher.
I have scanned the Russian Cameras article and it is here:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BzD8_BEgO7fINDM4NDY3ZGItZjZkMy00N2M2LTgxZmItNzEyMjcxOGMwNmE4&hl=en

About ten pages and one page that is not related to FSU cameras.
Some of the pages are upside down--I scanned using my work scanner and haven't had time to edit.

Mr. Nathan seems like a decent writer and was a big Nikon fan.
Rob
 
Nice article, thanks for sharing! I like the first page where the writer discusses if press photographers are or not into 35mm.
 
rbiemer said:
Sorry this took so long.
So I got the magazine, it is from 1958. NO camera ads. Spiratone had an ad, as did Edmund Surplus--now know as Edmund Scientific--and Dr. Grabow--that one's tobacco pipes. And a few for more magazines/how to books by the same publisher.
I have scanned the Russian Cameras article and it is here:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BzD8_BEgO7fINDM4NDY3ZGItZjZkMy00N2M2LTgxZmItNzEyMjcxOGMwNmE4&hl=en

About ten pages and one page that is not related to FSU cameras.
Some of the pages are upside down--I scanned using my work scanner and haven't had time to edit.

Mr. Nathan seems like a decent writer and was a big Nikon fan.
Rob
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Many thanks. It's always appreciated.

Regards, David
 
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