Pig Sty Avenue

I have a Fed-4 which apparently I've never used... Just now did a bit of research and worked out as best I could, (no one has published online a comprehensive serial no./production date schedule) that it dates to some time in the 70s. It carries a contrary (for a Soviet camera) Queen's Silver Jubilee sticker on the case, so that suggests it was in the UK at some time before 1977. I thought the ASA/Shutter speed/aperture dial on the top left was some kind of analogue sunny 16 reckoner, when... the needle to the left of it was working! Put my finger over the sensor on the front and... it dropped to nothing. It's alive! Forty years and counting . Makes you wonder how the Soviet Union ever collapsed.  

Why oh why did I sell my Jupiter 8 lens when I was 'having a clear out' ?  Not like it took up a lot of space. But at least having a blog meant I could find out where it was, save all that searching through boxes and wondering what I'd done with it. Today has been getting re-acquainted with the FED-2 day. See these resolutions I made in 2013 . That's where I'm picking up from. I somehow managed to mend the diopter without entirely getting the top off the FED-2.

"The last 'proper' photo I'm going to take for a while, all the spare energy is going into learning the piano.  I'll dust off the cameras after I get to Grade 8." UPDATE: I didn't get to grade 8, (though I could probably now do grade 1 if I put in the effort). But I have dusted the cameras off after a break of almost 5 years. Watch this space.