Oktava MD-42, Soviet vintage microphone

The encyclopedia includes information on the most famous Soviet models of photo and cinema equipment, as well as various accessories for photography and filming. There are tabs with black and white and color photos of Soviet photographers. The book was published in Moskow in 1981 by the Publishing house of "Soviet Encyclopedia". Number of pages - 447 Size of the book 5.9x8.8" / 150x223 mm

Old Soviet desktop telephone. Manufactured in 1968. An interesting model that has a microphone, perhaps so that two people can talk at the same time. At the back there is a socket for two wires, possibly for connecting headphones, so that the second person who will use the microphone can listen to the interlocutor. There are three not very noticeable defects, two of which are on the back side (see photo 8). At the site of the defect in the front part, if you wish, you can try installing a socket for a 3.5 Jack type plug and connecting headphones through it for a second subscriber, who will speak through the microphone or a speaker for speakerphone. On the front there is a peephole with an indicator, and behind it there is a lamp inside the case, which apparently should glow or blink when the phone rings. The operability is unknown, but no damage is visible inside, all parts are intact.. In the case of if it is will be used for its intended purpose, as an alternative a modern electronic filling can be installed inside the case, for example, from the walkie or Arduino GSM module for use with modern SIM cards. And of course, it can be used simply as a decoration for the interior.

Old soviet military goggles used by the Red Army in the 1930s-1940s. With this dark type of filters, they used were probably for welding work in the repair of military equipment. It have a fabric base covered with a layer of leatherette and bakelite mounts for filters. The leatherette layer has microcracks from age, but underneath it the fabric base is quite thick and durable. One of the metal rivets is damaged (photo 6), but this is not very noticeable and, if desired, you can replace all four rusty rivets with similar ones that are used on jackets or belts. Keep in mind that due to the very dark filter, it is almost impossible to use such goggles in daylight, so you can only see the dark outlines of objects near bright light sources. Examples of such photos are shown in photo 8 - the sun behind the tree branches and an incandescent lamp. Also, through such glasses you can observe solar and lunar eclipses. Also, if desired, you can unscrew the eyepieces mounts and put other glasses there, with a different degree of tinting or transparent. You can try ordering the production of these in an optics salon. Such goggles for the Soviet (Red) Army were produced in several types, from different materials and with different filters, depending on their purpose. But all of them basically have one common design - four ventilation holes and between them are side rectangular pads, on which there is a seam in the form of a horizontal letter "M". Photos of soldiers with similar goggles are shown in photo 9. Distance between eyepieces (approx.) 3" / 77 mm Diameter of the transparent part of the eyepiece 1.7" / 44 mm

Soviet knife switch in good working condition, designed for 24V and 5A. Produced at the Moscow FEP plant - (PhysElectroPribor), short for "Physical-Electrical Devices Factory", began its work in Moscow in 1933, seems to be working now. Size (by base) 6.2x2.3" / 159x59 mm

Old knife switch, in working condition. Judging by the presence of a jagged gap in the contacts, its original purpose was to turn off the old radio antenna during a thunderstorm. Therefore, this is not a simple switches, but the so-called lightning rods, as it is said in the 1959 book "Young Radio Amateur" in photo 7. It also shows a diagram of its connection between the antenna and the radio receiver. It was apparently once coated with chrome, which has partially peeled off. Such knife switches were used until the early 1960s to work with detector radios, which later fell into disuse. But of course, such switches can also be used for their usual purpose to open electrical circuit. Manufactured at the Moscow factory ATE-1, which was founded in 1929 and produced equipment for the automotive and aviation industries. https://ate-1.ru/history/ Length 4.7" / 120 mm

This movie camera designed to work with "Double 8" (2x8 mm) film wound on a reel. You can read more about film formats here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_mm_film Formats "Super 8" and "8mm" are not suitable for this movie camera. If you are planning to use a movie camera for its intended purpose, I can tell you where to buy film for it. You can easily find this information yourself through a search on the Internet, the main thing is to specify the correct format - "Double 8". According to the passport, this movie camera was manufactured on July 22, 1981, and has serial number 817847 (indicated on the lens). At the top of the passport there is a stamp indicating the date of recheck - October 15, 1984. And of course, before putting it up for sale, I myself checked it for functionality. The camera was tested in the work with the film, everything worked correctly. All speeds worked and also in two additional modes - single-frame shooting mode and continuous shooting mode CC, when you do not need to hold down the shutter button. The shutter rotation was also visible in the frame window. Distance and aperture scales worked throughout the entire range. The exposure meter is also in working condition and its needle changed readings depending on the set aperture values and film sensitivity. (photo 8). The video that you see among the photos shows the work with the film of this particular instance. I loaded film into this movie camera as shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uah320yMcg All accessories that come with this movie camera without packaging paper are shown in photo 2 below. The foam part of the original packaging has cracked and the left side is missing. However, if this set is shipped, the original box will be placed in another padded box. In addition to accessories, the kit includes instructions, a passport, tables of depth of field values (in meters) when using two attachment lenses (with focal lengths of 250 and 667 mm) and without them. It was produced from 1971 to 1983 at the KMZ factory in the Krasnogorsk city. Quartz 2x8 S3 is a narrow-film movie camera designed for the filming of amateur movies. Designed to work with Super 2x8 film format, wound on a reel. The useful capacity of the reel is 7.5 m of film, which makes it possible to produce 15 m of film. Semi-automatic installation of the aperture provides efficiency when shooting and eliminates the possibility of errors in determining the exposure. The lens "Meteor-8M" with variable focal length allows you to smoothly change the scale of the image. The change in focal length is coordinated with the end-to-end (unparalleled) sight. A spring drive with a full plant pulls 2 m of film. Shooting frequencies of 12, 18, 24 and 36 fps, frame-by-frame shooting, self-shooting, film rewind, unit of grab disconnecting greatly expand the technical capabilities of the camera. In Chrome browser through the translation function you can read here the instruction for this movie camera: http://www.zenitcamera.com/mans/quarz-2x8s-3/quarz-2x8s-3.html