Description
The FED 5 (often marked in cyrillic, with several variations of font, ФЭД 5 {upper-case} or фэд 5 {lower-case}) is a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by the FED factory in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov from 1977 until 1990. It features an uncoupled selenium light meter with a single range of sensitivity. It came equipped with the Industar-61 L/D 53mm f/2.8 standard lens incorporating the rare-earth element lanthanum & a focal-plane shutter with speeds from 1s to 1/500s + B, flash sync up to 1/30s & a self-timer. 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 & meter rings, & the meter scale repositioned & converted from a match-needle to an EV-scaled device where the user manually transfers the meter reading to the calculator. Fed 5B Camera, Working Film Vintage Camera
