Fed - 2 and winter's lowest poin

[gene m]

<p><a href="http://westfordcomp.com/classics/fed2/index.html">CLICK if you want to</a> .</p>

[marco_f]

<p>Delightful, as always. Some of your best work. You and that camera are real soul mates.</p>

[dan_b.4]

<p>Excellent work, Mr. M. That flamingo should get a ModelMayhem account and put together a portfolio!</p>

[gene m]

<p>It's not really "poin." It's "point." Like the one on top of my head.</p>

[john_robison3]

<p>Comrade Gene, vot vonderful picturs. I'm sure the capitalist dogs vit da nikons an da canons are quaking in boots.</p>

[roseberry guitars]

<p>Nice Gene.</p>

<p>I have one of those red Feds but an earlier version. I keep threatening to *bay the damn thing but never seem to be able to. It's the smell of the thing I'd miss and then I'd just want another one.</p>

[rustys pics]

<p>That lens looks pretty good! Guess the lenses were always the strong point of Soviet cameras....I've owned an early Fed, several Kiev 4s, and a Kiev 60. All took gorgeous photos like yours-when they were not on Vodka break.</p>

[User_502260]

<p>This morning I looked out of the kitchen window and saw frost on the deck railings and on the table. For a moment I thought about grabbing a camera to capture the frost. I know one of my Canon F-1s has some 400 speed color print film in it and there is at least one of my many Canon and Canon mount macro lenses nearby. As I finished my breakfast the phone rang and I didn't think about the frost again until it was time for lunch. By then the frost had all melted. As we get close to the end of January I almost feel bad for Old Man Winter. Then the bill comes from Public Service Electric & Gas. I still hope I'll get a few more winter photos before the forsythia starts to bloom.</p>

[User_4525289]

<p>"vodka soaked machinists" managed to make cameras that last for five decades is not that ironic? Nowadays unknown sober people make digital that do not last even 5 years. I think that soaking in vodka makes a difference</p>

[JTG1]

<p>Nice.</p>

<p>~Jack</p>

[sg_adams]

<p>Is it better to be a vodka soaked Machinist, or caffeinated technician? <br>

I think the Feds probably smell like the 1950's Russian SKS I had for a while. <br>

Not a bad smell, just had a lasting burnt cutting oil ambiance... </p>

[rick_drawbridge]

<p>Great. Just great...</p>

[Rick_van_Nooij]

<p>My three Mosin Nagant rifles probably share the same smell.<br>

Great stuff Tovarish Gene, (Yes I know it's not polite to call someone Tovarish these post-communistic days). I share your rewind pains. Two of the three Leica-ized cameras I owned shared the same problem. No complaint about the lenses though.</p>

[richard_]

<p>I like the exposed screws on the camera; something easy to take apart when you get cabin-fever Gene. Love that Flamingo shot!</p>

[subbarayan_prasanna]

<p>I have owned and used over 9 Feds and Zorkis. Some had knobs and others had levers. All of them are very smooth film advancers. None is even sticky or tardy. The Feds are very quiet. The Zorkis with a lever advance make a rachet noise; but they are smooth all the same. Smoother than the Canon TL and FT that I owned. The soviet camera gears need a different approach to lubrication from that used in the German and Japanese Cameras. Regards, sp</p>

[gene m]

<p><em>All of them are very smooth film advancers.</em><br>

Amazing.<br>

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[the celt 2]

<p>As you may know, my Fed 2 is the denim blue model. I love that camera, and it seems that you love yours too Gene. When you find a good one,they're wonderful cameras, and your shots show off their best qualities. I want to find a black one, mainly because the blue attracts way to much (sometimes unwanted) attention. </p>

[sg_adams]

<p><em>Film advancer </em>? Oh crap ? That got me thinking, is this why after my one exposure, the one I've been making on each roll of film all these years, that there seems to be an awful lot of wasted tail???</p>

[greg_nixon2]

<p>Love the Red Fed. Appropriate somehow. The USSR caption in CW looks very nice in that font, and just assymetric enough to make it interesting.<br />Interesting post as usual.</p>

[Julio Fernandez]

<p>SP,<br>

"The soviet camera gears need a different approach to lubrication from that used in the German and Japanese Cameras"</p>

<p>I'm interested in this - what to you mean exactly? different lubricant? quantities?</p>

[bill poole]

<p>I know nothing of Commie cameras, but I grew up in Amherst, and these lovely photos made me quite homesick. Thanks for sharing.</p>