Post by David Silver on Feb 21, 2008 1:01:43 GMT -5
Scored this week...was given three classic USSR Leica thread mount cameras. A friend of my mother's was cleaning out her late husband's things (nothing recent...her husband passed over a decade ago, but she's moving into a smaller home now), and came across these old cameras. She showed them to me, I told her what they were worth, but she said she didn't want to sell them. She wanted to GIVE them to me because her husband always thought I was "such a nice young man". Hmmmmm...no comments from the peanut gallery! Anyway, this is the second of the three (I'm showing the other two in separate threads for separate comments and opinions). It's a FED 2 type d from around 1959, it works perfectly, and it's wearing an unusual Industar-50 50mm f/3.5 lens:
I've handled plenty of USSR Leica "clones" over the years, but have just recently become interested in actually shooting with various Leica alternatives. So, what's the verdict on this one and its lens? Pro, con, or otherwise?
I've handled plenty of USSR Leica "clones" over the years, but have just recently become interested in actually shooting with various Leica alternatives. So, what's the verdict on this one and its lens? Pro, con, or otherwise?