MTC Photography Posted July 30, 2000 Share Posted July 30, 2000 Fed 5 is a Russian Leica copy, but does not look like screw mount Leicas nor the Ms.Specs: Rangefinder camera, Industar 61 L/D 55mm f2.8 Lens, a 4 element 3 group Tessar type lens with 39mm screw mount. Filter 42 mm, focusing range from 1 M to infinity.Aperture f2.8 to 16; cloth horizontal travelling shutter B, 1,4,15,30, 60 125,250, 500; flash sync 1/30. Leica Srew Mount type shutter speed pull and drop style dial.Uncoupled build in selenium meter with ISO film dial at top left of camera. Film advance lever; pop up milled film rewind knob at center of meter dial.Build in self timer with seperate release button. Film back complete removable for easy film loading.Viewfinder has no frame. Made in Kharkov Machine Factory in Russia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grant_. Posted December 13, 2000 Share Posted December 13, 2000 its also 20 friggin pounds... ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted December 17, 2000 Author Share Posted December 17, 2000 <a href="http://www.listquest.com/lq/search.cgi?ln=leicausers&mid=&sp=&q=fed5&b=1&s=1&o=0&x=29&y=17">Discussions on FED5</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photojim Posted February 27, 2001 Share Posted February 27, 2001 The filter on my Industar-61 lens is 40.5 mm, but otherwise this information is correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted July 7, 2001 Author Share Posted July 7, 2001 There is some interest in Fed5 and Fed lenses in <p> http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=005f3L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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