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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2009 12:26:04 GMT -5
I quit buying new cameras for my Soviet collection several years ago. But since that time I have acquired at least a half dozen more. The latest is a Zorki 1C (Leica II copy) that is on its way to me now. Some folks seem to look at my Russian camera site and when they are reducing their collections or have some gear inherited from a relative, it's apparently easier just to send it to me than it is to try to sell it. That's the curse of collecting things that were cheap to buy but don't seem to appreciate with age. I may have told this story before, but collecting Russian cameras is like owning an accordian. You don't want to leave either in plain sight in the backseat of a car. When you return the car window is likely to be broken and instead of one accordian (or Russian camera) there will be two or more.  |
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Post by casualcollector on Feb 23, 2009 17:19:09 GMT -5
Wayne... I like that one!
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Feb 23, 2009 23:36:16 GMT -5
I know the curse well, just bought my third Start, a selection of lenses and adapters, plus a Zenit C but passed at the last second on another Zenit 3M.
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Post by Dave on Mar 10, 2009 21:56:30 GMT -5
I have, among a number of Soviet cameras, a Photosniper, which is a Zenit SLR with a 300mm lens which fits on what looks like a rifle gun stock. The gun stock has a wide leather strap so that you can carry like a rifle. The lens is very good and before the terrorist panic, I used to take it out fairly frequently. It always drew comments, of course. Now I am afraid to take it out publicly because of the probable panic it would cause! On the other hand, with the NRA taking over any effort at gun control here in the US, perhaps I should carry it around.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2009 22:23:47 GMT -5
I have, among a number of Soviet cameras, a Photosniper, which is a Zenit SLR with a 300mm lens which fits on what looks like a rifle gun stock. The gun stock has a wide leather strap so that you can carry like a rifle. The lens is very good and before the terrorist panic, I used to take it out fairly frequently. It always drew comments, of course. Now I am afraid to take it out publicly because of the probable panic it would cause! On the other hand, with the NRA taking over any effort at gun control here in the US, perhaps I should carry it around. Dave You need to gety to know Tom A.H. Peil (aka Tom Tiger) at h www.xs4all.nl/~tomtiger/Tom is a huge fan of the Photo Sniper and uses it at European air shows (he lives in Holland). |
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Post by bobinleipsic on Apr 5, 2012 16:28:33 GMT -5
I'm currently thinning out my collection of FSR cameras - too many duplicates, bodies and lenses. SWMBO says, only ONE of each! Do variations on a certain design count as "different" or as "Same?"
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Post by daveh on Apr 5, 2012 21:08:57 GMT -5
Definitely different! ;D
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Post by photax on Apr 5, 2012 23:37:23 GMT -5
I share Dave`s opinion: they are different. I also have a truckload of "Russian" cameras in my collection, but no one is much like another ( only a different serial number doesn`t count )
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Post by bobinleipsic on Apr 18, 2012 17:48:18 GMT -5
Russian Cameras . . . I have the following:
FED 3b: 3 of them - one great user, looks great, 1 with a bad shutter - slow speeds don't work, and a third with broken self-timer, "iffy" shutter & beautiful rangefinder . . .
FED 5b 0 my first Russian. Meh condition.
Lubitel 166: Fun in it's own way.
Zorki 6: 2, 1 with "iffy" rangefinder, 1 not bad, both with collapsible Elmar 50/3.5 copy.
Zorki 5: Not bad at all, came with a Jupiter 8, so wasn't "stock." Fun, though!
Zorki 4, with Jupiter 8. Slow speeds sometimes sluggish.
Zorki 4K: Jupiter 8, looks like a new camera! Woerks almost that good, too.
Kiev 4, Helios 103. Just got it, n film through it.
A Moskva 2, from Jurgen Kreckel: VERY nice condition, CLA'd, I love those 6 x 9 negatives!
The usual assortment of Jupiter 9, 11 & 12 lenses in LTM for the FEDs & Zorkis.
I don't need any more.
I have enough Russian cameras.
I can stop any time.
Really!
Right . . .
I also have an Ambi Silette, Canonet 17 GIII, Lordomat C35 (Interesting camera!), a Petri Color 35 Black (Works, too!), A few Pentax spotmatics, 3 Exaktas, 1 Exa, a Super Ikonta A (Pre-war), a Maxxum 7000 crossed "X's", 2 maxxum 7000i's, a Cann EOS 650 & 620 and a digital Sony 230 SLR. And a bunch of lenses for all of them.
Plus some other stuff packed away that I can't remember right now . . .
OF course I can stop collecting!
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Post by daveh on Apr 18, 2012 18:01:52 GMT -5
Bob, you mean (old joke coming up) you won't be rushin' to buy more! |
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Post by bobinleipsic on Apr 19, 2012 13:51:01 GMT -5
Bob, you mean (old joke coming up) you won't be rushin' to buy more! Naughty, naughty!! Actually, I'm looking at a FED 2b (?) to add to the collection . . . She Who Must Be Obeyed doesn't know about this yet . . . bobinleipsic |
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Post by daveh on Apr 19, 2012 17:04:54 GMT -5
She will do soon!  |
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Post by colray on Apr 19, 2012 19:31:53 GMT -5
Russian cameras I quit collecting them after the last one I purchased . A refurbished FED 3 that stopped working after just 3 exposures.
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Post by mickeyobe on Apr 20, 2012 9:09:49 GMT -5
I have only had one Russian camera, a Zenit 12xp.
I was not impressed when I got it about 8 years ago.
Examining it now I am still unimpressed.
It is a clunky thing with limited shutter speeds and what amounts to a preset aperture.
It is uncomfortable to hold being quite nose heavy with its Helios 44-4 58mm f2 lens.
Little bumps that were so common 75 years ago but not today are appearing behind the leather covering.
I am probably being unfair never having put a roll of film through it but there is little inducement. Nor did it make me want to further investigate Russian cameras.
First impressions, you know.
Mickey
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Post by 33dollars on Apr 20, 2012 21:38:09 GMT -5
Russian cameras I quit collecting them after the last one I purchased . A refurbished FED 3 that stopped working after just 3 exposures. 3 exposures, that sounds about right. Probably why they called it a FED 3. |
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