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Post by truls on Jan 18, 2015 10:46:09 GMT -5
A search revealed some info about the Fed 6 TTL, it never reached any Production. It looked as a capable camera, With Electronic shutter from Minolta CL (Leica?). Any of you aware of any of these cameras in use or Collection, or are they possible to buy at all? Why did not this promising camera never made it to the market?
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Post by philbirch on Jan 18, 2015 10:58:31 GMT -5
Promising camera. Hmmm... Introduced in 2000 it was too late I think, I couldnt imagine a market for it. I think if it had been introduced 20 years earlier it may have done something. It is, like all the other FEDs before, it a 1950's Leica copy that has been added to and evolved over the decades. There have been no radically new cameras in that time. Every manufacturer at sometime has moved on to the next phase, but FED (and the Zenit) has remained the same forever.
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Post by hannes on Jan 18, 2015 13:28:50 GMT -5
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Post by truls on Jan 19, 2015 5:59:19 GMT -5
Promising camera. Hmmm... Introduced in 2000 it was too late I think, I couldnt imagine a market for it. I think if it had been introduced 20 years earlier it may have done something. It is, like all the other FEDs before, it a 1950's Leica copy that has been added to and evolved over the decades. There have been no radically new cameras in that time. Every manufacturer at sometime has moved on to the next phase, but FED (and the Zenit) has remained the same forever. At the time of introduction it did not seem as a good Product. It is easy to be wise as the years passes by. In 2000, we did not have Lomography, the digital explosion began and so on. But, the Bessa-R was introduced at the time, a similar camera as the Fed 6, an old fashioned Leica-construction With a mechanical shutter. If the Fed 6 had made it, With the planned Electronic shutter and other improvements, it would have been a fairly competent and popular camera today, due to the increased interest in rangefinders today. Well, it's history, not easy to predict. Hannes: Thank you for the Nice information in the provided links. I agree, Fed 6 is out of most collectors price range. |
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Post by Stephen on Jan 19, 2015 7:06:31 GMT -5
There is more of a chance of Soviet Prototypes turning up more than other makes, they seem to have production runs of hundreds before committing to making them.
The Soviet system was committees to decide everything, then get the Party to rubber stamp the decision. This could take months or even years and in the meantime the factory made "Prototypes". Also it is said a lot of the factory staff made cameras for testing themselves, and kept them.
It may not apply so much to the FED6, as it was made in the period that the Soviet empire was collapsing around them. I very much doubt that many escaped the system, probably only ones used for testing or removed from the factory by staff.
The Fed6 had an interesting specification, but going by the way they made stuff at the time, would have been rather poorly made. Also Fed's reputation had fallen on worlds markets, importers had closed down, and service etc., would have been a deep problem.
Stephen.
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