Touted as the best Russian-made LTM lens ever, the rare-earth impregnated Industar-61 L/D came standard on the FED 4 and 5. The common sentiment is that for the price what you’re getting is a world-class lens with an ugly camera-shaped rear lens cap.

There were versions of the FED-5: the original FED-5 had an exposure meter, the FED-5B was a cheaper version without meter and the later FED-5C had reflected framelines showing field of view of 50mm lens and an exposure meter. All FED-5 …

May 15, 2018 · FED 5B (marked with Cyrillic ФЭД 5В) is a Soviet-Russian rangefinder manufactured at the Ukrainian factory in the city of Kharkiv. This was my dad’s camera, the one I remember vividly from my childhood years in our modest Moscow apartment.

May 21, 2018 · With the remarkable images fresh in memory and the pains of making them conveniently glossed over, I took the FED 5b to Potsdam and Wannssee outside of Berlin for a weekend of exploring. This time the experience was reversed; being more familiar with the camera meant shooting the FED was less frustrating and tedious, but the resulting images ...

Aug 20, 2024 · The FED 5 (often marked in cyrillic, with several variations of font, ФЭД 5 {upper-case} or фэд 5 {lower-case}) is a 35mm rangefinder camera, produced by the FED factory in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov from 1977 until 1990.

Mar 23, 2020 · FED-5 is a Soviet rangefinder camera, one of the latest models from the FED camera series. In addition to FED-5, there were also FED-5B and FED-5C cameras, each of which had its own small features. FED-5 was produced by Kharkiv FED Engineering Association from 1977 to 1990 and replaced FED 4 .

Sep 9, 2013 · The FED-5B is an interchangeable lens rangefinder introduced in 1977 by FED, a state-run optical manufacturer named after Felix E. Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Soviet secret police. The FED-5B and its siblings (including the FED-2) were all manufactured in what is now the Ukrainian city of Kharkov in an orphanage turned labor commune.

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Feb 15, 2024 · FED 5 series cameras consist of three models: FED-5, FED-5B and FED-5C. The FED-5B model was launched earlier, in 1975, and 2 years later, in 1977, the production of FED-5 and FED-5c began. The fifth FED series is a continuation of the development of the fourth model FED-4. There was not much new in the fifth model.