Digital cameras are for wussies

[Ivan]

Why bother with empty batteries, wires and bad CF cards when you can have the same functionality with manual controls

Fed-4, early B model with a 'standard' I-61 lens. Export style texts and ISO/ASA speeds on the lightmeter dial.


Uncomfortable carrying bag considering that the thing weighs over 900 grams whitout film.


The beast in ready-to-shoot mode (with the lens cap on)


The main controls. From left to right: Speed calculator, Lightmeter display, Flash mount, Speed selector, Shutter, Film advance lever with counter


Clearly an export version... made in USSR


Industar 61 standard lens... later ones came with the L/D version


Rear cover removed. Haven't tried it yet but i think it will take a current 35mm film catridge

[TSC.]

Nice shots Ivan - what type of camera did you use??

TSC.

[Wing Nut]

Bet it was a digital!  :)

[Ivan]

Nice shots Ivan - what type of camera did you use??

TSC.

Konica Minolta 3 megapixel... Gives better image quality than scanning from printed photos with our crappy scanner

The things that make this FED-4 interesting is that it has an export style body, but a cyryllic-only lens, and that the usual GOST markings (that were on export ones oo) are replaced with ASA/ISO

[ATI_7500]

If I remember correctly, my grandparents had one of those.  :o

[ozzy72]

My father-in-law has an almost identical one and yup she takes 35mm film

[FLYING_TRUCKER]

The last camera I owned developed the picture and then you had to spread this paste on it so it would not fade or something.
I think it is now in the local dump LOL
I have been tempted to buy a digital camera but I know nothing about them.
I can honestly say I know about as much about cameras as I do about computers...that is nothing.
I took all the pictures we had and I mean all the pictures, some dating back to the late 1800s, many of the people we did not even know and could not find their names in the six family bibles that came into our possession and soon to be destroyed in the burn drum.
Well I bought a scanner and took a year to scan and put these picture on two discs.
I then took all these pictures about ten boxes and burnt them in the burn drum.
Man did I make room in the basement, the old girl does not know what I did yet.  I even got rid of all the certificates I had hanging on the "I Love Me Wall".
The problem now is I can not bring these pictures/certificartes up on the TV screen for all to see.
I can bring them up on the computer but not the TV.
Till this gets figured out there will be no camera.

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

[Ivan]

The last camera I owned developed the picture and then you had to spread this paste on it so it would not fade or something.

Polaroid of some sorts