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So you're saying it should also stop somewhere also for the FED 2? From what I can deduce, the stopper is there more so to prevent you from over-winding the clock-like mechanism that delays the 2nd curtain from snapping close when you go to speeds from 1/15 to 1 sec, and the FED 2 doesn't have...

Question 1: I remember in my FED 3, the shutter speed dial rotate CW up to 1/30 (past 1/500 and B), CCW up to 1 sec. Now that I have a FED 2 (version: that one that also looks like a FED 3 but minus the slow speeds below 1/30), I notice that the shutter speed dial just rotate freely on either...

i also see this bird sometimes here in front of bishan park... would you also be selling telescopes in yahoo auctions?

wouldn't this be because, to use TTL metering properly, you have to initially open up the aperture at it widest, take the reading, and adjust the exposure accordingly?

Anyone knows where to have RF beam splitter prisms repaired here in SG? It got decemented in my FED 3, didn't give it much TLC, I guess. Well actually I already sold it, but if it happens again with my FED 2, at least I'll know where to go. I already passed by John 3:16 to ask for info, and...

that shop near Clifford Quay is Dinky Di something... its nice to touch them, get a feel, but really the prices the guy put on all his cameras are high given their poor condition... i know you can still bargain with him, i just don't know how low you can make him go... on buying local and...

there's a canonet that would pop up once in a while in yahoo auctions SG... as well as other rangefinders... the cash converter at tampines once had a yashica electro 35 for.... $15 only!... but i didn't ask if there's any problem with it... the cash converter at toa payoh just...

i don't own a contax so i really would not know... i am just starting on this rangefinder thing recently, and i've read about the old contaxes and kievs... i scratched my itch be getting myself a FED3 type B (screwmount, but not any type of lenses can be used, but i am content just having one)...

i have some el-cheapo RFs... i have a FED 3 type B (leica-derivative)... and a Minolta Hi-Matic 7s... while i'm at it... should anyone have the instruction manual of the Hi-Matic 7s, i would really appreciate the help of providing me the DOF table that's in there... yes, i already found a...

the pre-war contaxes and soviet kievs which are their clones/derivatives are true rangefinders...

hi... i use a Minolta Hi-Matic 7s rangefinder... bought it off Ebay... would anyone else be using this? does anyone have the actual instruction manual for this camera? i am interested in DOF table values provided in that document. i know there is already a scanned version available in...