Trimming negatives for FED2

[captainslack]

I'm waiting on a FED2, my first FSU camera, to arrive from alex-photo. In the meantime, I downloaded an English manual from someplace and read thru it. The diagrams it has on loading film use the old "Leica style" film leader. I know for the bottom loading type FED & Zorki 1 series models, as well as the old screwmount Leica series, you have to trim to the leader of modern films in order to make it work, but will I have to do that for my FED2 as well? I wouldn't think so since the back is removable, but I figured I'd check with more knowledgable folks before I screwed something up! 😀

 

[Gordon Coale]

No trimming needed.

 

[kiev4a]

FED2 take standard tongue.

 

[jorisbens]

No trimming needed.

Ah, the miracles of modern photography 😀

Fed-2's are as revolutionary as Lenin himself 😛

Looks like I'm in a funny mood 😉

Joris

 

[pshinkaw]

Once upon a time all 35mm factory loads came with the long "Leica leader" Any old instruction manual will show this type leader, because it was all we knew. I think the manufacturers starting with Kodak started using the shorter leader sometime in the early 1980's.

-Paul

 

[jlehmus]

I have a FED Zarya (like FED 2, removable back) and have tried to learn to load it "properly" - so that the frame would sit nicely between the perforations, but no luck yet! Is it even possible? My frames always turn out tilted and falling over the upper edge perforations, like this: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3378617

 

[back alley]

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[pshinkaw]

I think it is the basic nature of Soviet cameras that the film frame is a little bit tilted. Most of my Soviet cameras do this.

People used to file notches inside of their cameras to help them identify negatives and match them to a camera later. Other cameras like Agfas had deckel edges and Exaktas are all upside down (based on frame number placement) I can identify the negatives shot with most of my Soviet cameras by their tilt.

-Paul

 

[Stanton]

I have a Zarya and a series of Fed 2s. No trimming needed on any of them and I never had the tilting problem. I just load like I would any fully manual camera which is not a bottom loader.