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cream queen
creamqueen@clubcyberia.co
@meso I wish my fed wasn't raped. It was so much fun to shoot since it had no light meter in it at all
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@meso also get fucked loser.
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@creamqueen my dad used to have a Fed, think it might've been a Fed-5, must've been thrown away or something by grandparents I haven't been able to find it. I found his film enlarger though
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@creamqueen also leica prices are actually fucking retarded. I was watching a documentary about a war photographer and he mentioned having to sell his Leica SLR that he used for a lot of stories including one about his Colombian assassin girlfriend and I thought "pfft, did he really have to sell it? How much money would he have gotten out of it anyways" 
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@gray yep, been eyeing out the flea market for Smenas for ages, got it for 15 levs
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@meso nice find. I’ve heard they pretty good little cameras
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@gray yes. a good thing about Soviet cameras is that even though this thing was really, really cheap, and people passed them around as gifts because they were so plentiful, the lens are high quality optical glass, as opposed to Western stuff this cheap and plentiful that'd probably be made out of plastic if they could
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@meso I’ve had a few Soviet cameras and I still have a Soviet lens in M42 mount and they’re all great as long as you’re aware of some the limitations.
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@meso there are some manufacturing quality issues like inconsistent distance from the lens to film plane.
Also some of the older rangefinders if you change the shutter speed before winding the film you can break the shutter mechanism. That’s also a problem with old Leicas that the rangefinders were copied from.
Also some of the older rangefinders if you change the shutter speed before winding the film you can break the shutter mechanism. That’s also a problem with old Leicas that the rangefinders were copied from.
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@meso the Soviet lenses are very good optically but can have build quality problems in the later generations
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