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May 14^th, 2005 at 11:02am

Ivan Offline
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Why bother with empty batteries, wires and bad CF cards when you can have the same functionality with manual controls

Fed-4, early B model with a 'standard' I-61 lens. Export style texts and ISO/ASA speeds on the lightmeter dial.

Uncomfortable carrying bag considering that the thing weighs over 900 grams whitout film.

The beast in ready-to-shoot mode (with the lens cap on)

The main controls. From left to right: Speed calculator, Lightmeter display, Flash mount, Speed selector, Shutter, Film advance lever with counter

Clearly an export version... made in USSR

Industar 61 standard lens... later ones came with the L/D version

Rear cover removed. Haven't tried it yet but i think it will take a current 35mm film catridge

Russian planes: IL-76 (all standard length ones), Tu-154 and Il-62, Tu-134 and An-24RV&&&&AI flightplans and repaints can be found here

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Reply #1 - May 14^th, 2005 at 11:28am

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Nice shots Ivan - what type of camera did you use??

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Reply #2 - May 14^th, 2005 at 11:29am

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Bet it was a digital!

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Reply #3 - May 14^th, 2005 at 11:34am

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Nice shots Ivan - what type of camera did you use??

TSC.

Konica Minolta 3 megapixel... Gives better image quality than scanning from printed photos with our crappy scanner

The things that make this FED-4 interesting is that it has an export style body, but a cyryllic-only lens, and that the usual GOST markings (that were on export ones oo) are replaced with ASA/ISO

Russian planes: IL-76 (all standard length ones), Tu-154 and Il-62, Tu-134 and An-24RV&&&&AI flightplans and repaints can be found here

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Reply #4 - May 14^th, 2005 at 11:51am

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If I remember correctly, my grandparents had one of those. Shocked

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Reply #5 - May 14^th, 2005 at 12:12pm

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My father-in-law has an almost identical one and yup she takes 35mm film Wink

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Reply #6 - May 14^th, 2005 at 12:23pm

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The last camera I owned developed the picture and then you had to spread this paste on it so it would not fade or something.
I think it is now in the local dump Grin

LOL
I have been tempted to buy a digital camera but I know nothing about them.
I can honestly say I know about as much about cameras as I do about computers...that is nothing.
I took all the pictures we had and I mean all the pictures, some dating back to the late 1800s, many of the people we did not even know and could not find their names in the six family bibles that came into our possession and soon to be destroyed in the burn drum.
Well I bought a scanner and took a year to scan and put these picture on two discs.
I then took all these pictures about ten boxes and burnt them in the burn drum.
Man did I make room in the basement, the old girl does not know what I did yet. I even got rid of all the certificates I had hanging on the "I Love Me Wall".
The problem now is I can not bring these pictures/certificartes up on the TV screen for all to see.
I can bring them up on the computer but not the TV.
Till this gets figured out there will be no camera.

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #7 - May 14^th, 2005 at 1:57pm