Portrait of FED

[spystyle]

Here is FED



Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky

 

[Spyderman]

Ha! What a joke!

 

[newspaperguy]

"Here is FED"

So?

Is there a message we're missing?

 

[btgc]

FED cameras are much more user friendly than man after whom they are named. You know, Soviets just couldn't name camera models "Gulag 1" or "Mass Terror 3".

 

[valdas]

FED cameras are much more user friendly than man after whom they are named. You know, Soviets just couldn't name camera models "Gulag 1" or "Mass Terror 3".

excellent point...

 

[spystyle]

"Here is FED"

So?

Is there a message we're missing?

Well the message is FED, that's him - he's the guy the cameras are named after

It's like a 3 second history lesson !

 

[pakeha]

FED cameras are much more user friendly than man after whom they are named. You know, Soviets just couldn't name camera models "Gulag 1" or "Mass Terror 3".

It's like a 3 second history lesson !

Got another 3 seconds on Hoover the crossdresser?

 

[payasam]

Rick, we don't belong here.

 

[spystyle]

Well you can have this thread deleted if you like, I'm not fussy.

I just thought some might not know the face of FED

 

[spystyle]

OK, now another history lesson !

That image came from The birth of the Soviet 35mm Camera Industry (click)

 

[robklurfield]

which camera, lens, film combination did you use to shoot that portrait of Comrade Dzerzhinsky? how many stops was it pushed? what color strap should I use on a Zorki? Red?

 

[payasam]

Nothing that I know of is named after Paul Rudolph, yet I would like to see a picture of him if you can dig up one.

 

[spystyle]

...Paul Rudolph...

I found a photo of him here (click) and here (click)

which camera...?

I bet that photo was taken with an early Leica that was later disassembled and reverse engineered