Fed 5 is a Russian Leica copy, but does not look like screw mount Leicas nor the Ms. Specs: Rangefinder camera, Industar 61 L/D 55mm f2.8 Lens, a 4 element 3 group Tessar type lens with 39mm screw mount. Filter 42 mm, focusing range from 1 M to infinity. Aperture f2.8 to 16; cloth horizontal travelling shutter B, 1,4,15,30, 60 125,250, 500; flash sync 1/30. Leica Srew Mount type shutter speed pull and drop style dial. Uncoupled build in selenium meter with ISO film dial at top left of camera. Film advance lever; pop up milled film rewind knob at center of meter dial. Build in self timer with seperate release button. Film back complete removable for easy film loading. Viewfinder has no frame. Made in Kharkov Machine Factory in Russia

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), July 30, 2000

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its also 20 friggin pounds... ;-)

-- grant (g4lamos@yahoo.com), December 13, 2000.

Discussions on FED5

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), December 17, 2000.

The filter on my Industar-61 lens is 40.5 mm, but otherwise this information is correct.

-- Jim MacKenzie (photojim@yahoo.com), February 27, 2001.

There is some interest in Fed5 and Fed lenses in

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=005f3L

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), July 07, 2001.