Russian Film Camera - Help please

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Ok folks I'd like to test your knowledge of obscure cameras. My brother brought this over with him when he paid a visit to us from Latvia.

I have no idea who made it, ok I do I just can't pronounce it, it has a rangefinder rather than ttl system, a fixed lens and you load 35mm film into a cartridge.

If any of you know anything about these cameras I'd love to hear it:)

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I have an old Canon that looks similar. A Canonet 28 to be precise. This may just be a foreign model of that. Does it have any numbers present?

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Edit: Just noticed the second image and it does look a LOT older than my model. Hmm ... I'm not sure then.
 
dont be tempted mark JUST DO IT ! a nice ilford hp5 plus will do fine .
 
Yep it's a Fed 2. I had one of these waaaay back and it produced razor sharp beautiful images. The coupled rangefinder was very accurate.
 
donutagain said:
dont be tempted mark JUST DO IT ! a nice ilford hp5 plus will do fine .
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Thanks, I was just going to ask what the best film for this camera would be, been a while since I loaded film:lol:
 
It's no different to any other camera in that respect, so you can load any 35mm film you like. Don't forget this camera pre-dates DX coding by many years so you'll need to set the ASA speed manually.
 
CT said:
Don't forget this camera pre-dates DX coding by many years so you'll need to set the ASA speed manually.
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Although seeing as it has no meter you can probably forget about that bit. :D
 
Thanks CT, I must admit to being a bit perplexed by one of the dials on this thing, I can work out how to set the shutter speed, the shutter release is the middle button on the left hand side as you look down, although this serves another purpose as well, not sure what.

The film wind is the largest dial, but this two has another dial on the top that appears and numbers from 22 - 180. No idea what that does:thinking::shrug:
 
The image above is missing the G in the russian word GOST which is the russian variant of iso/din film speed measurement. The numbers correspond to the GOST scale and the dial is just there as a reminder to you of what speed film you have put in the camera, you set it manually.
 
Excuse my stupidity but if this dial is the film speed setting how would this correspond to an iso 400 film? It only goes up to 180, is the scale different?
 
So excuse my stupidity but is the GOST scale different to the ISO scale, as my only goes up to 180, how would I set what the reminder to let me know I had an ISO 400 film loaded?

apologies for the duplicate posts(x3) the tp database crashed on me:eek:
 
tbh m8 I'd not bother with it, it's not that hard to remember what film you have in the camera ;)
 
What Steep said.. I wouldn't worry about setting it - it's just a reminder anyway. The GOST film scale more or less aligns with the old ASA scale but not quite. Later on they aligned the scale totally with the new ISO scale, but much later than your camera model.

That lens isn't fixed by the way, it's a screw thread, but as the lens (and the threads) are largely alloy, they can get very tight over time.

You've a good excuse to buy a cheap hand held meter now if you haven't got one. ;)
 
CT said:
That lens isn't fixed by the way, it's a screw thread, but as the lens (and the threads) are largely alloy, they can get very tight over time.

You've a good excuse to buy a cheap hand held meter now if you haven't got one. ;)
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Thanks again CT, I only realised that the lens was removable when I looked at the links Steep posted. Think the lens will do for now tho.

Will have to see if I can find a light meter now.
 
Look for some Ilford Delta 400 film if you want to shoot B&W it costs about £4 a roll of 36 and it can be processed by any high street store.
 
Delta 400 cheaper online.
7dayshop have flat rate postage of £4 though, so bear that in mind.

Personally I'd go for some HP5, T-Max or Neopan, though. Any highstreet lab that still does B&W is reasonably likely to soup it up in D-76, and I don't much rate the combo of D-76 w/ Delta 400.
 
Oops you're absolutely right, I was thinking of Ilford XP2 which is processed in standard c41 colour chemicals.
 
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