Zorki,Fed and Kiev magazine article.

[SCOTFORTHLAD]

Just for a bit of fun,I have scanned an article published in Amateur Photographer in 2000, comparing,the Zorki 4,Fed 4, and Kiev 4(although the article confuses by referring to a Kiev 5--the research was obviously lacking)

As usual the article is rather dismissive,don't think too badly of the Author,he is now the Editor of the magazine!

I am not sure if the files are too big,and may need to send in separate posts.

Brian.

 

[pedro.m.reis]

Hi Brian.
I cant read anything on the pics 🙂
Could you sent to my email a larger version?
Thanks

 

[SCOTFORTHLAD]

Hi Pedro,
I have zoom symbol --bottom right on each pic,which brings them up to full size.Let me know if that works.
Brian.

 

[Spyderman]

interesting reading... thanks for sharing 😉

 

[Dave Wilkinson]

Text breaks up on my screen, Brian.

Dave.

 

[jamiewakeham]

Oh, Damien Demolder. Good writer but so flippant about anything that's not the latest Nikon/Canon DSLR. Surely it wouldn't have been had to find three FSU cameras that weren't in desperate need of CLA for his test?

Mind you, this is the guy who, a few years back, told a reader who'd written in saying he'd bought something called a 'Leica M3' at a boot sale that it was almost certainly a fake soviet camera and thus worth a tenner or so. D'oh.

Jamie

 

[SCOTFORTHLAD]

Hi Pedro/Dave,
No problem,I'll email the pages over to you shortly.

Cheers,
Brian.

PS.Dave---recently discovered Kiev's, via Kiev 4 --- v.nice!!

 

[tyrone.s]

Thanks for posting those scans. It was really great to be able to read them. You know, reading them reminds me of how lucky we all are to have 'the Internet'. At least these days we can quickly search for a diversity of opinions and indeed get a wider view of any particular subject area - certainly wider than 1 author in 1 magazine. Even though the article was published in 2000 it could have been written in 1985 the way it reads.

 

[Superbus_]

Thank you sharing with us this article.

I think the author of this article was a real simple guy with very limited knowledge of the wolrd (I'm not speaking about photography).

The first part of the article is something like that: hey, look at this these soviet boys and girls, they are wearing real clothes living in real houses and yes, they have cameras! and the cameras can take pictures!! wow, amazing!

I think anybody with elementary knowledge about the world and history has to know that the soviet industrial system and soviet (russian, ukrainaian etc.) engineers could do anything from nuclear bomb to cameras, from bicycles to cars etc. and the optical devices were very close to the western standards.

 

[Matthew Allen]

Thanks for posting that, but where's the end of the article?

There was a rather less dismissive piece on FEDs in a more recent AP. It gave a detailed history of FED models and evolution, and actually talked seriously about using the cameras. I think it was one of those "classics to use" articles.

Matthew

 

[Spyderman]

The rest of the article is here: http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43107

and here:
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43016

BTW Brian - you could have posted it in 3 posts in the same thread...

 

[SCOTFORTHLAD]

The rest of the article is here: http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43107

and here:
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43016

BTW Brian - you could have posted it in 3 posts in the same thread...

Thanks for the tip Ondrej --- unfortunately I am no technophile.In fact just repeated the process with the Kiev article😱
Cheers,
Brian.

 

[SCOTFORTHLAD]

Following on from my reposting of the Amateur Photographer Kiev article,here is another which compares a Fed/Zorki,and a Kiev.
More pages to follow.
Cheers,
Brian.