Vintage Cameras & Lenses

 FED 5 Vintage Soviet Rare SLR Camera with Industar 61L/D Lens USSR Serial No.078977 The FED-5 (often marked in cyrillic, with several variations of font, ФЭД 5 or фэд 5 ) is a 35 mm rangefinger camera produced by the FED factory in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov from 1977 until 1996.   The FED-5 is an updated FED-4, with cleaner lines to the top, a pop-up rewind knob in place of the thumb-wheel, a hot shoe, restyled film reminder/frame counter and meter rings, and the meter scale repositioned and converted from a match-needle to an EV-scaled device where the user manually transfers the meter reading to the calculator. There are 7 types and 10 sub-types of the FED-5 Specifications Lens: standard lens Industar-61 L/D 53mm f/2.8 (ИНДУСТАР-61 Л/Д), interchangeable, 39mm Leica screw mount, filter size 40.5mm Aperture: f/2.8 - f /22 setting: ring and scale on the lens Focus range: 1-20m +infinity Focusing: matching yellow rangefinder images in the viewfinder Shutter : rubberized silk double cloth curtain, horizontaly moving focal-plane shutter Speeds: 1-1/500 +B Cocking lever: also winds the film, short stroke, retractable, on the right of the top plate Frame counter: coupled with the cocking lever, advance type, auto-resets Viewfinder: coupled viewfinder/rangefinder, w/ Diopter correction ring, around eyepiece Exposure meter: uncoupled Selenium cell sensor, metering by a needle window on the top-plate Exposure setting: Set the film speed on the large dial. Even though the speeds on the dial are in GOST, just set the ASA value; Point the camera to the scene you want to photograph; Look through the light meter window to see which number the needle indicates; Turn the light meter dial until the silver number underneath corresponds with the number from needle window; Read off the suitable shutter speed and aperture combinations and set the camera accordingly Re-winding : a pop-up small chrome knob at the centre of the exposure / ASA(GOST) setting dial, push and turn to left for pop-up Self-Timer: activates with a small knob above it Flash PC sync socket, flash sync up to 1/30s Hot-shoe Memory dial: on the knob of the cocking lever Back cover: removable with the bottom plate, opens by two pop-up semi-circle levers on the bottom plate Tripod socket: 1/4" Engravings on the back of the top plate: СДЕЛАНО В СССР ( SDELANO V SSSR = MADE IN USSR) Weight: 720g