You've just got to see this...

[bsdunek]

Sure is beautiful - but - I'd be afraid to carry it. My friends would stay away.

 

[Talus]

Not quite as classy as this unit, but still bucket list material for sure. =)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VERY-RARE-F...115049?hash=item43f0581c29:g:Q94AAOSwmtJXY~NB

 

[Keith]

What a wonderful doorstop ... for a gingerbread cottage!

 

[Jamie Pillers]

FANTASTIC! I wonder if I can send them my M240 and Noctilux for the same treatment?

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I wonder how many would know about Petrнkivna here...
Just in case if some one (here) wants to know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrykivka_painting

 

[farlymac]

It's a lovely design, but I've seen better work. This one looks rushed.

PF

 

[John Bragg]

I can't think of anything less appropriate or less appealing. It is wrong on just about every level possible. An assault on the visual senses and a travesty in destroying a decent camera and lens !

 

[Keith]

I can't think of anything less appropriate or less appealing. It is wrong on just about every level possible, an assault on the visual senses and a travesty in destroying a decent camera and lens !

The world is full of FSU cameras that don't work and we are inexorably running out of homes for the ones that do. To some this may be an abomination but to me it's something different and I'm sure many people would enjoy just owning it and being able to look at it on the shelf. Maybe next to the old Royal Dalton dinner set they've never had the heart to part with.

 

[p.giannakis]

This is what happens when your 10 y.o. kid gets hold of your camera.....

By the way, it reminded me this little village in Poland.
http://unusualplaces.org/zalipie-the-most-beautiful-village-in-poland/

 

[michaelwj]

When you open the back is there a smaller Zorki inside?

That was my first thought too. But we do have some nesting dolls with a similar paint scheme.

 

[Elmar Lang]

Good old Josif Vissarionovich would have sent the author to Kolyma for a long vacation...

 

[rbiemer]

Well, the camera David pointed us to is gone but! Fear not!:

Listing here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Zenit-3M-Ru...556064?hash=item3ad5d42fe0:g:tyEAAOSw2xRYXuct

I am honestly tempted but I have my doubts about its working condition.
To give the seller his/her due, they have 100% positive feedback and a decent amount of sales. And they are camera sellers.

Rob

 

[mpaniagua]

I suppose Nazi Leica's counterfeit arent selling anymore, so people found something else to do with the zorki/Fed

Regards

 

[Dralowid]

David's paid homage to English canal boat decoration, to me this looks a bit like Delft pottery.

So, perhaps something Bauhaus next?

 

[KoNickon]

That "Delft" Zenit is quite something, I must say.

 

[ChrisPlatt]

Hyacinth Bucket's camera is Royal Doulton, with handpainted perriwinkles.

Chris

 

[MIkhail]

I wonder how many would know about Petrнkivna here...
Just in case if some one (here) wants to know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrykivka_painting

I do, incidentally ;-)

 

[Muggins]

Looks as though Ilford missed a trick with the Advocate!

http://www.photomemorabilia.co.uk/Ilford/Advocate.html

Adrian

 

[Mike Fish]

Hyacinth Bucket's camera is Royal Doulton, with handpainted perriwinkles.

Chris

It's pronounced BOUQUET!

 

[David Hughes]

Yes, an all white camera would be ideal. The latest ebay one does look great though I don't think I'd like it purely as an ornament, and imagine it with a 2 or 3 inch wide hippy shoulder strap and flash to match...

Regards, David