Show Off Your FSU

Step 1) FED2
Step 2) Zorki 4
Step 3) Ask who is better Fedka or Oleg?
Step 4) FED 1 or Zorki 1
Step 5) Kiev 4
Step 6) Is this NKVD real?
Step 7) Any one have an extra take up spool?
Step 8) Jupiter-3
Step 9) I need some Pilobond
Step 10) Sanding or reverse electrolysis?
Step 11) Dang it! I forgot my postman's birthday--how do I make it up to him?
Step 12) One of each, please.
Step 13) I Now Can Only Express Myself In The True Proletariat Manner. I Scorn The Western Capitalist Camera Combine That Seeks To Undermine The Excellent Favored People's Photographic Reality!
Rob
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Rob! do you have something you want to tell us??????
Steps 9 and 11
I hope you mean P l i o bond, or is this like pillowbond, and has it any connection to the present for the postman?????:eek: :eek: :eek: :D
 
John Robertson said:
Rob! do you have something you want to tell us??????
Steps 9 and 11
I hope you mean P l i o bond, or is this like pillowbond, and has it any connection to the present for the postman?????:eek: :eek: :eek: :D
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:bang: Trying to be funny with out enough coffee in me!
OK edited Step 9)I need some Pliobond.
And since the postman keeps bringing me these lovely packages with weird writing/stamps/yak hair on them, I thought I should remember him...
Rob
(who obviously needs an editor!:D )
 
robo.rbiemer ~ LOLOL!! Great! And hey, Pilobond, I read right through it and didn't even catch it. USPS is off tomorrow - gives you a day to plan - gotta keep the postal guys happy!
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I know I'll probably have to dodge a hail of bullets for this one, but here's my latest acquisiton. I did also recently get a FED 4 and 5B in compensation though :D
 

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I know I'll probably have to dodge a hail of bullets for this one, but here's my latest acquisiton.
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Wow, that's a pretty amazing looking rig!
 
wolves3012 said:
I know I'll probably have to dodge a hail of bullets for this one, but here's my latest acquisiton. I did also recently get a FED 4 and 5B in compensation though :D
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One of the prettiest of all the early SLR's regardless of country, wish I'd kept mine:mad:
If your going to put a lot of films through the Fed 4, buy a supply of finger bandages. It must have one of the nastiest rewind knobs ever, used to remove loads of skin from my thumb!!!:D
 
Well the blame for the Zenith can be laid squarely at Mr Jay Javier's door - he has one on his site and I saw it and just knew I'd have to have one! Yes, it's one sweet camera, sort of honorary RF I think.

The FED 4 hasn't been used yet - I have several other cameras in the queue to be used first! I think I perceive the rewind issue though. It needed the VF/RF cleaning but otherwise seems good. The FED 5B is an olympic version and needs new curtains, otherwise in excellent condition (possibly *because* of the curtains!). Both needed the lenses re-lubing, unsurprisingly. The 5B is a little project for a rainy day I think...

To be honest I'm not keen on the looks of the 4 or 5, but I needed them to complete the collection of major FED models. Having said that, they are growing on me and the 4 seems to be a very good "user", plus they were both very cheap.
 
Hey comp_wiz, you didn't happen to take some digi photos of the Z3 CLA did ya? I really need to break into mine and I am stuck at getting the slow speed dial off.
 
One of mine, unfortunately the rear element of that lens is scratched, like someone took to a little patch (right in the centre) with some 1200 wet and dry.
 

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Hey comp_wiz, you didn't happen to take some digi photos of the Z3 CLA did ya? I really need to break into mine and I am stuck at getting the slow speed dial off.
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To tell the truth I'm not sure if I still have them, but I'll try to remember to have a look see when I get home for it.
If I remember properly, I had a lot of trouble with that too, until I realized that the dial itself didn't need to come off. The little "knob" part can be removed, but that is only for adjusting the mechanism.
 
Zorki-6 with rigid Industar-50. My favourite lens for daylight shooting. It only needs a hood. Would 37mm fit?
I had to use a cellphone for the pics, since digital camera is out of juice. :)
 

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Zorki-6 with rigid Industar-50. My favourite lens for daylight shooting. It only needs a hood. Would 37mm fit?
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Most FSU lenses take 40.5mm screw-in accessories - except for J-9 which is 49 and the collapsibles which can only take 36 (?) slip-on...
 
According to the official KMZ archive site the figures for the rigid Industar 50 are:-
Screw in thread
Индустар-50 -- СпM33x0,5
Индустар-50-2 -- M35,5x0,5
Push on sizes (outside dia)
Индустар-50 -- Ø36 мм
Индустар-50-2 -- Ø37 мм

The lens should be marked whether it is a 50 or the later 50-2
Hope this helps.

see
http://www.zenit.istra.ru/archive/lenses/industar-50.html


Further check would seem to indicate that the 50-2 was only made in 39mm screw for the Zenith SLR cameras, not the R/F cameras
 
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