2 FED 1 serial numbers and production numbers.8,647,000 cameras were manufactured since the beginning.' This may be accurate as there are FED-5 cameras in existence with serial numbers up to at least 596692. Production of all types of camera has stopped. 'Start of serial production of vertical drive for control system of tanks. Fed-5 Serial Number 545446 was made on 28 February 1994 Fed's site claims that it was in fact 1997: Production of FED rangefinder cameras ended in the mid 1990s.

All FED-5 cameras were delivered with an Industar I-61L/D lens. 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. The FED 5 marked the end of the FED rangefinder family and was meant as a replacement for both the FED-3 and FED-4, which were in production at the time of its introduction. The FED 4 (1964–77) added a non-coupled selenium exposure meter. The FED-3 added slow shutter speeds and on the later version FED-3 (b) the film advance was changed from a thumbwheel to a lever. įrom 1955 FED began to innovate, combining the rangefinder with the viewfinder in the FED 2 and all its successors. Броневой), came up with the idea of producing a copy of the German Leica camera.

In 1932, the new managing director of the factory, A.S. Initially the factory was managed by the head of the commune Anton Makarenko and produced simple electrical machinery (drills). The factory emerged from the small workshops of the Children's labour commune named after Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (the acronym of which gave name to the factory and its products) in December 1927 in Kharkiv ( Soviet Ukraine, now Ukraine). The FED is a Soviet rangefinder camera, mass-produced from 1934 until around 1996, and also the name of the factory that made it. FED 4 (possibly early model, revision A) with the golden scroll print, showing its M39 mount

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