On a day trip to the Murray River towns of Waikerie and Blanchetown, I packed a camera bag (Lowepro Passport Sling) with the following light recording items: Olympus OMD EM5 Micro Four Thirds digital body with an Industar 52mm 2.8
When most people think of cameras, they think of Japan, Germany or the US. But behind the Iron Curtain, the Soviet Central Command Economy had ordered the production of millions of cameras and lenses across the decades; many of which
Last entry, I posted about my newly acquired FED 1 camera and provided some history. This evening, I spent some time removing the lens, and checking out the FED in more detail. I discovered the good and the bad… The
From Wikipedia: “The FED is a Soviet rangefinder camera, mass-produced from 1934 until around 1990, and also the name of the factory that made it. FED is indirectly named after Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka. It was his
The Zarya camera (meaning Dawn in Russian) was produced between 1959 and 1961. It was based on the FED 2 camera, but doesn’t feature the slowest shutter speeds. Like the famous FED, it features the M39 mount. Unlike the FED