Siren Song of the Russians

[gene m]

steve mareno

 

Gorgeous. Ansel-like.

[david_f._stein]

Talk about great camera values.

[luis triguez]

Great again, Craig.

 

I have to confess that I’m not working so many times with my Soviets since I shot with Leicas, but I still using a Jup8 with all of them very often, even with the M3 + adaper. It is an outstanding lens than I’ll never go to leave abandoned.

[the celt 2]

Yes, I too have listened to tha sirens song, and now own two Feds. My lovely blue Fed 2, and my Fed 3(which is still a work in progress). I hope to win the Zorki that I'm bidding on Now. By the way will the Fed lenses fit the Zorki? The Zorki I'm bidding on comes with a 3.5 lens, and when I got my Fed 2, it came with an extra Industar 2.8.

[User_4525289]

"By the way will the Fed lenses fit the Zorki? The Zorki I'm bidding on comes with a 3.5 lens, and when I got my Fed 2, it came with an extra Industar 2.8."

 

All. Here is the list on cyrillic

Индустар-22 (Industar 22)

Индустар-50 (Industar 50)

Индустар-61 л/д (Industar 61)

Юпитер-3 (Jupiter 3)

Юпитер-8 (Jupiter 8)

Юпитер-12 (Jupiter 12)

Юпитер-9 (Jupiter 9)

Орион-15 (Orion 15)

Руссар (Russar)

Two latter are relatively rare

[joshroot]

Yes yes, very pretty. But those cameras won't ever measure up to this one.

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[User_4525289]

Paris Hilton's Special Order? That camera came from where? Did you paint is yourseflf?

[joshroot]

I powder coated it a few years ago. Just for something to do.

[Rob_the_waste]

Josh, did you spend too much time in your younger days watching wrestling? Did you buy this camera from the Hit Man or the Anvil?

[Rob_the_waste]

Only a true badass could use a camera like this in public.

[luis triguez]

Josh, that nice Fed 2 sould be ideal to my assistant.<div></div>

[User_4525289]

"I powder coated it a few years ago. Just for something to do."

 

May I ask about motivations? Was that a protest against the fall of Soviet Union? May be I should Paint my Moskva 3 in red?

[Rob_the_waste]

Josh, I think you might be onto something... perhaps a custom camera beauty contest? I don't currently have anything like that done, but if a time frame were allowed that would permit some creative camera work, you might get something going here. The only sticking point might be the camera still has to work.

[joshroot]

<i>"May I ask about motivations?"</i>

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My motivation was that I had a Fed 2 sitting around and I have a powder coating setup. And at the time, I did not have a baby in the house. So I actually had some spare time on my hands.

[User_4525289]

Josh, I post this picture on one site of the Russian film-camera enthusiats. I hope that you do not mind that. It is now the early morning in Russia but I hope that they will have fun time tomorrow.

[joshroot]

Copyright infringement!

 

Seriously though, just do me a favor and link it back to this thread. Got to promote my employer (photo.net).

[User_4525289]

Josh, I post the link below the picture. People in Russia are quite knowlegable about photo.net. I just hope you did not do that in some kind of a political protest, like Checks wich painted T34 tank in the center of the Prague in pink colour about 15 years ago. That camera I was learning how to shoot, and it is not that bad for its time, a bit worse quality than Zorki 4 though. Plus the lenses you have I-61 are very sharp almost as Zeiss Tessar for a fraction of coast.

[Brian1664876441]

The Russian lenses are made to the Contax standard, but it is not hard to collimate them for the Leica by adjusting the variable stand-off ring or by changing the Shim. They are not exact clones of the original Zeiss lenses, but are pretty close to it. The optics fixture is shorter, probably done when the German glass ran out and new glass was formulated.

 

This is with a 1935 Carl Zeiss Jena 5cm F1.5 remounted in a J-3 focus mount, collimated for the Leica standard.

 

Wide-open and close-up, focus on the eyes. <p}

 

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[Brian1664876441]

The Zorki 3M is my favorite Russian camera.<p>

 

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[User_4525289]

Where did you get that crazy colors? They all were black as far as I can remember.

[craig_supplee]

OOOHH, that Zorki 3M is SEXY!. Cameras are female aren't they???

[craig_supplee]

Somebody help me figure out why Josh would have pink powdercoat lying around his house. Barbie furniture?

[joshroot]

<i>"Somebody help me figure out why Josh would have pink powdercoat lying around his house."</i>

<p>I used to have a small "beer money" business powder coating aluminum yoyos. Yeah, yoyos. Go figure.

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<img src="http://www.disskings.com/images/yoyos/jan06/coatedyos.jpg">

[craig_supplee]

Hey Josh, no problem here. Whatever works. Might be a good time to resurrect a small business like that. Do they make glo-in-the-dark powdercoat? The possibilities are endless.

[User_4525289]

Ahhh I want to have glow in the dark Russian Camera. I will get and sacrifize Zorki 4 and Jupiter 9 85/2.0 in alluminum body + revolving viewfinder, I will get the whole set of lenses for that . Must be a cool gift to hard core enthusiast. Even better each lense would be color coded. Josh, please send a protocol for that. Much appreciated.