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
This is what Camerapedia says about the Smena 8M: “The LOMO Smena 8m is an entry-level camera from the 1970s Soviet Union, now mostly regarded as a toy camera. It is an extremely low-tech, fully manual, no-frills plastic box capable