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This is my rangefinder Fed 3b made in Soviet Union in the city of Kharkiv in today's Ukraina. The Fed 3b was introduced in 1963. It is fitted with a 53mm f2.8 Industar 61 lens.
Kit: Graflex Speed Graphic 5x4 • Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar f/4.5 21cm • Fomapan 100
Light: Bowens studio flash, manually fired through umbrella above and to the right of the camera
Exp: Exposed using the focal plane shutter on 'T' for 1 sec or so • f/4.5 • 100 ISO
Dev: R09 ONE SHOT (Rodinal) • 1+50 • 8 mins • 20 degrees C • Scanned with Epson V700
I've been searching for a cheap portrait lens for the 5x4 set up, which involved reading lots of different articles and viewing lots of different examples. Most of the best lenses are sold for a bit more than I'm willing to spend (at the moment) on eBay. But then I discovered this barrel lens at MW Classic Cameras where I bought the camera. Being a barrel lens means it doesn't have a shutter, but that's where the focal plane shutter of the Speed Graphic comes in handy. Using flash is a bit trickier as there is no usable sync for electronic flash when using the focal plane shutter. So for this test I decided to darken the room, manually open the shutter and fire the flash before closing the shutter again - using 'T' mode. It seemed to work well and the result from the lens looks really nice.
Of course if I was trying to capture the FED 3 properly I would have stopped the lens down a bit, but I wanted to see what the out of focus areas looked like wide open.
Mounting the lens is going to be the next challenge so that I can use it properly without the fear of it falling on the floor - it's currently mounted in a cardboard 'lens board', which I can wedge into the front standard. It performed very well for this test!
Manufactured by F.E. Dzerzhinsky factory, Kharkov, Ukraine, CCCP
Model: 1979, Type 7c Olympic (produced in 1979)
all FED-3 produced between 1961-1979
as to Alexandr Komarov
Engravings on front of the camera: Olympic logo of Moscow Olympics and ФЭД FED 3
35mm Rangefinder film camera
Lens: Industar-61 L/D (И-61 Л/Д) 53mm f/2.8, Mount: M39 Leica type,
filter thread: 40.5mm, serial no.9253067
Lens release: simply un-screw
Aperture: f/2.8-f/16setting: ring and scale on the lens
Focusing: matching yellow rangefinder images in the viewfinder,
ring and scale on the lens, w/ DOF scale
Focus range: 1-20m +inf
Shutter: rubberized silk double cloth curtain, horizontal focal plane,
speeds: 1-1/500 +B setting : dial on the top plate, lift and rotate,
turns when shutter released
Cocking lever : also winds the film, long stroke, on the top plate
Shutter release: on the top plate, w /cable release socket,
Frame counter: coupled with cocking lever, beneath it, advance type, manual setting
Viewfinder: coupled rangefinder/viewfinder, green glass,
Diopter adjustment by a collar around the eyepiece
Re-wind knob: on the top plate
Re-wind release: by a collar around the shutter release, B rewind, C wind
Flash PC socket: on front of the top plate, X sync 1/30
Cold-shoe
Memory dial : with Gost values, on the cocking lever knob
Self-timer: lever on front of the camera, activates by a small knob above it
Back cover: removable with the bottom plate,
opens by two folding levers on the bottom plate
Film loading: special take-up spool, removable
Tripod socket: 1/4''
Strap lugs: none
Body: metal, Weight: 723g
serial no. 082742 (on the bottom plate)
+original leather ever ready case
The early Leica cameras, and the other Leica inspired cameras like Canon III, FEDs and Zorkis, and almost any camera which winding also causes the film speed selector turning, always cock the shutter before changing film speeds.
FED-3 was offered many body and lens variations during its long producing time.
"Industar-61 L/D: The "L" stands for lanthane, glass coating of the lens. Lanthane is apparent a radioactive element, but its level is very low and harmless for humans, when measured with a radiation meter, the actual radiation given off by these lens is less than the background radiation. The "D" stands for "dalnomernaya", which means "rangefinder type".
This is my rangefinder Fed 3b made in Soviet Union in the city of Kharkiv in today's Ukraina. The Fed 3b was introduced in 1963. It is fitted with a 53mm f2.8 Industar 61 lens.
Variations on a theme «...with a film across Moscow»
Camera: FED3 and Lens Jupiter-8 (50mm ƒ2)
Film: Kodak Profoto XL 100 / film expired for ±10 years (as exhibited 50 ISO)
Photo taken: 14 March 2015
This is a scan copy of the original paper print 10x15, without any processing. In the «as-is».
Printing on fotomachine: Noritsu QSS 3502
Matte Photo Paper Kodak Royal Digital Paper
Scanner: Canon CanoScan Lide 90 (2400 dpi; 3,8 D; 48 bit)
The monument to the brothers Cyril and Methodius, the enlighteners, the creators of the Slavic alphabet, preaching Christianity and committed service in the Slavonic language. The monument is located in Moscow, Lubyansky proezd, near the metro station "Kitay-Gorod". Is a statue of two brothers holding the cross and the Holy Scripture. On the monument is written in old Church Slavonic: "Saint first Slavonic teachers Methodius and Cyril. Grateful Russia".
Every year on the Slavic area spend the day of Slavic writing and culture. Every year at the pedestal Cyril and Methodius runs the eponymous festival of Slavic culture.
The monument was inaugurated on 24 may 1992 (the Day of Slavic writing and culture) close to the Slavic area. Sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov Mikhailovich, the architect of the monument is Grigoriev Yuri devoted.
While I was re-sealing the brother in law's present, and the Fuji ST605, I also figured I'd add a bit to the FED, there being none and the camera depending on having the case around it to seal out the light leaks. Plus it's just cool with the auxiliary finder and biogon clone Jupiter lens.
Now if only I'd learn to remember to take the cap off when I'm shooting. *sigh*