Monday 13 September 2010

Saturday 11 September 2010

Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский in Brussels: FED5



A few months ago a friend of mine gave me his FED5 for a test. I am always happy to work with vintage cameras so I went for a walk down my street. All in all, it was nice to shoot with FED5 although the camera is too cumbersome and inconvenient in use due to a very small viewfinder and a lack of a rewind knob. FED3 is much more better in terms of speed but certainly it also has got its disadvantages...read below:-)

Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский in Brussels: FED3



Last holidays I bought a FED3. I remember a friend of mine saying that in the 1980s many photographers and photography students would buy it because it was a direct copy of Leica and if you were lucky you could get a copy of very good quality. My father-in-law added: if you were lucky and they had not produced it during a night shift...apparently, I wasn't that lucky this time:-)