http://www.zorkikat.com/my-newest-fed-1/255/ Cameras. Cats. Photography Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:08:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.zorkikat.com/my-newest-fed-1/255/comment-page-1/#comment-136 admin Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:38:00 +0000 http://www.zorkikat.com/my-newest-fed-1/255/#comment-136 Hello MPM, thanks for the comment. Yes I am a certified FED (and Zorki, and just about any 'Barnack' type) addict! :) This camera was repaired rather easily. I only had to look for a suitable lens mount. I found one from an old discarded Zorki-S. I don't really relish the thought of cannibalising another camera, so I just ask for suitable parts from other people who are also into fixing cameras... I am quite impressed at what the early workers of the FED commune did- this camera dates from those early times, and I can say that they really did good for the conditions they had. I have already repaired this camera. I made the replacement shutter material myself. This FED is an excellent and respectable machine- it will compare favourably with the original Leica II and since it does not fall short in any ability, the FED can and will shoot as well as any Leica II. Hello MPM, thanks for the comment. Yes I am a certified FED (and Zorki, and just about any ‘Barnack’ type) addict! This camera was repaired rather easily. I only had to look for a suitable lens mount. I found one from an old discarded Zorki-S. I don’t really relish the thought of cannibalising another camera, so I just ask for suitable parts from other people who are also into fixing cameras… I am quite impressed at what the early workers of the FED commune did- this camera dates from those early times, and I can say that they really did good for the conditions they had. I have already repaired this camera. I made the replacement shutter material myself. This FED is an excellent and respectable machine- it will compare favourably with the original Leica II and since it does not fall short in any ability, the FED can and will shoot as well as any Leica II.

]]> http://www.zorkikat.com/my-newest-fed-1/255/comment-page-1/#comment-135 MPM Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:26:35 +0000 http://www.zorkikat.com/my-newest-fed-1/255/#comment-135 It is an interesting task to fix old FEDs. The original camera design by Oskar Barnack (Leica II of 1932) was so good that all clones have inherited it's virtues: they are simple, yet refined, they are mostly easily repareable (if you have got spare parts or another body to cannibalize) and they are mostly quite handsome cameras. In case of the FED we must not forget that the boys in the Djerzhinksky Labour Commune did the nearly impossible: they copied the most advanced camera of its time nearly from scratch, without any precision-mechanical tradition and with primitive means, and they did it well! I love old FEDs, so I understand that you do, too. Best greetings to the Phillipines from Vienna, Austria. MPM. It is an interesting task to fix old FEDs. The original camera design by Oskar Barnack (Leica II of 1932) was so good that all clones have inherited it’s virtues: they are simple, yet refined, they are mostly easily repareable (if you have got spare parts or another body to cannibalize) and they are mostly quite handsome cameras. In case of the FED we must not forget that the boys in the Djerzhinksky Labour Commune did the nearly impossible: they copied the most advanced camera of its time nearly from scratch, without any precision-mechanical tradition and with primitive means, and they did it well! I love old FEDs, so I understand that you do, too. Best greetings to the Phillipines from Vienna, Austria. MPM.

]]> http://www.zorkikat.com/my-newest-fed-1/255/comment-page-1/#comment-94 mahesh Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:40:30 +0000 http://www.zorkikat.com/my-newest-fed-1/255/#comment-94 Hogwash! All fake, obviously. What can Philippinos do? They're not good for anything, much less have the capacities to work on complex machines like this. Hogwash! All fake, obviously. What can Philippinos do? They’re not good for anything, much less have the capacities to work on complex machines like this.

]]> http://www.zorkikat.com/my-newest-fed-1/255/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Michael Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:26:06 +0000 http://www.zorkikat.com/my-newest-fed-1/255/#comment-81 It'd be nice to see this camera finished. You seem to have abandoned this blog, when I was enjoying it so much. It’d be nice to see this camera finished. You seem to have abandoned this blog, when I was enjoying it so much.

]]> http://www.zorkikat.com/my-newest-fed-1/255/comment-page-1/#comment-77 ed Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:11:13 +0000 http://www.zorkikat.com/my-newest-fed-1/255/#comment-77 your really good... I am wondering if you could repair my canonet QL17.... please email me if you can (shutter speed selector is not working, sticky aperture, shutter stucked at bulb mode) before I bring it to hidalgo (i dont know if someone can repair an RF there). 09154879116 your really good… I am wondering if you could repair my canonet QL17…. please email me if you can (shutter speed selector is not working, sticky aperture, shutter stucked at bulb mode) before I bring it to hidalgo (i dont know if someone can repair an RF there). 09154879116

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