Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What model is it supposed to be? Almost all FEDs were copies of Leica II. Was it expensive? Take the lens off and see if the rangefinder actuating lever has a roller, like all Leicas have. NKGB s unknown to me - NKVD was the forerunner of KGB, like MVD. UKGB is possible, meaning Ukrainian KGB, but as FEDs were made in Kharkov, Ukraine it would quite likely be a fake - but a real one - a factory made fake. FEDs were made in an instution for juvenile delinquents called Trudkommuna imeni Felix Edmundovich Dzhershinsky. Can we see some pictures of it? All the best! Raimo K personal photography homepage at: http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho/ Quoting Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>: > Howdy Crew, > Hopefully someone out there in LUGLAND has some idea whether this is > for real or a phoney Russian KGB Leica knock off camera? > > Sunday at the Vancouver camera swap meet Peter Kline pointed out the > "Russian Leica" I had to sell was engraved with NKGB and some other > Russian > script. Tom Abrahamsson suggested I should put it out of site until > it could > be verified in some manner whether it was for real or not. > > So over to you crew, does anyone have any solid information about > whether > this might be or suggestions on how to verify it? And yes the camera > works > as best as we could tell. > > I've had it after an assignment in Russia on the Chernobyl Children. > But > never used it nor did I do anything with it as I thought it was an > old Leica > look a like and maybe some day I might use it, never happened. > > Thanks folks, > ted > > --