Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/26

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Subject: [Leica] Zorki and J-8 Industar 61 as "car camera"
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Mon Sep 26 02:04:01 2005
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20050925143126.00bd3ec0@mail.2alpha.com>

Peter

Peter Klein wrote:

> This might be the wrong crowd to be asking this question, but here goes.

No don't see why...
> 
> My workplace has banned cameras completely.  

Sorry guys but I do have a certain sympathy with their viewpoint

If I want to shoot at lunch
> or on the way home, I must leave the camera in my car in the underground 
> parking garage.  I am not comfortable with leaving a Leica in my car.  
> So I was thinking of applying the Daniel Ridings Solution:  Use a Soviet 
> camera as my "at-risk" camera.
> 

...

> I'm thinking seriously of trying to get the Industar 61 adjusted.  But 
> I'm wondering whether I should do this with a $12 lens, or simply buy a 
> couple more until I get one that works.  Or try for a better Jupiter-8.  
> I'm also wondering whether I should stop playing Russian roulette, buy a 
> used Bessa R and C/V 35 or 50  for a couple of hundred dollars and stop 
> worrying.

Think about a Fed 1C (aka Fed 1S [S=C in Russian]) if you can get it one, 
looks 
just like a II - it is a II copy - and works reasonably well from what I've 
heard from people who have used them, but there are the usual Russian QA 
issues 
which aren't as bad as they make out. They come up on E*** and they are 
available in second hand dealers; they also have a certain collectible 
status 
now. They are a bit of pre-WWII Soviet history. If you are interested in 
that 
I'll just start by saying that FED stands for the initials of Dzherzhinsky, 
the 
founder of the original KGB, the GPU.

Oh and they are LTM, but try your lenses with your camera first. Less 
valuable 
than your Leica but...

> 
> I must admit to a slight fascination with the Zorki, but I much prefer 
> shooting with a Leica.  Buying more film cameras would cut into the 
> "Someday a Digital Rangefinder" fund.

Wel... ;-)

Peter Dzwig


Replies: Reply from firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin) ([Leica] Zorki and J-8 Industar 61 as "car camera")
In reply to: Message from pklein at 2alpha.net (Peter Klein) ([Leica] Zorki and J-8 Industar 61 as "car camera")