A Developing Idea IX
I love using my FED-2. And it's a good job I got a second one by mistake. The first one came from The Ukraine, and has a nasty light leak. I had thought it was flare , but it's definitely a light leak... ) The second one looks almost new. It came from a UK seller on eBay. The rangefinder wasn't working, so I tweaked it and now it's fine. I have developed a myth around it, that somebody bought it on a visit to the USSR, was flummoxed by the dysfunctional rangefinder, and put it away in a drawer where it lay for fifty years. Or something. Actually, I shot a roll of Jessops everyday colour 200 ISO, which I haven't collected from the developer yet - so I'm crossing my fingers that it too doesn't have a light leak... I'll pick up the developed film tomorrow. But of course the whole thing is pointless without a film scanner. I've got three 35mm rolls developed from the light-leaking FED 2 (and not every exposure is affected, I can tell), plus a...