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  Thursday  December 2  2004    09: 42 PM

commie cameras

Here is a group portrait of my commie cameras and their "new" lenses.

They are getting closer to being users. Well, at least two of them are. The Zorki 6 on the left has shutter problems. I think it will be my learner camera and I will be taking it apart and putting in new shutter curtains. However, the lens on it just arrived and it is a mint 50mm f2 Jupiter 8. The FED 2 in the middle has 35mm f2.8 that also just arrived and is very nice. The FED 2 on the right has the collapsible Industar 50 that came some time ago. All three lenses are mint or near mint. The FEDs need rangefinder adjustment and then I will be able to stop working on these cameras for awhile and actually take pictures. I'm looking forward to that.

update
I should have mentioned that the collapsible Industar-50 was made in the mid 1960s and the black Jupiter 8 and Jupiter were probably made in the 1980s. They are based on designs that predate WWII. The Jupiters are clones of Zeiss lenses and the Industar-50 is a clone of the Leitz Elmar 3.5.