FED 5 (фэд 5)

FED 5 (фэд 5)

a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by the FED factory in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov from 1977 until 1996. The FED-5 is an updated FED 4, with cleaner lines to the top, a pop-up rewind knob in place of the thumb-wheel, a hot shoe, restyled film reminder/frame counter and meter rings, and the meter scale repositioned and converted from a match-needle to an EV scaled device where the user manually transfers the meter reading to the calculator. 

Technical Specs:

Lens: standard lens Industar 61 L/D 53mm f/2.8 (ИНДУСТАР-61 Л/Д), interchangeable, 39mm Leica screw mount, filter size 40.5mm
Aperture: f/2.8 - f /22 setting: ring and scale on the lens
Focus range: 1-20m +infinity
Focusing: matching yellow rangefinder images in the viewfinder
Shutter : rubberized silk double cloth curtain
Speeds: 1-1/500 +B 
Cocking lever: also winds the film, short stroke, retractable, on the right of the top plate
Frame counter: coupled with the cocking lever, advance type, auto-resets
Viewfinder: coupled viewfinder/rangefinder, w/ Diopter correction ring, around eyepiece
Exposure meter: uncoupled Selenium cell sensor, metering by a needle window on the top-plate
Exposure setting: Set the film speed on the large dial. Even though the speeds on the dial are in GOST, just set the ASA value; Point the camera to the scene you want to photograph; Look through the light meter window to see which number the needle indicates; Turn the light meter dial until the silver number underneath corresponds with the number from needle window; Read off the suitable shutter speed and aperture combinations and set the camera accordingly
Re-winding : a pop-up small chrome knob at the centre of the exposure / ASA(GOST) setting dial, push and turn to left for pop-up
Self-timer: activates with a small knob above it
Back cover: removable with the bottom plate, opens by two pop-up semi-circle levers on the bottom plate
Tripod socket: 1/4"
Engravings on the back of the top plate: СДЕЛАНО В СССР ( SDELANO V SSSR = MADE IN USSR)
Weight: 720g 

This camera is one of my favorite in my list, I often used it for more serious moment to capture, especially when I travel in a leisure time, I got this camera from a senior collector in Bandung, He said it was his favorite also, and he has to sell it because he's too old to maintain this kind camera.

Some of my works with FED 5 / Asa 200 Kodak / Industar lens M39 in Jogjakarta

Courtesy of taiabati.com

 Self Collection