City - Annapolis State - MARYLAND Country - United States
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An accidental composition, found while strolling around Annapolis, MD.
The mission that day was to try out my FED-5B, one of the cameras in my glorious Soviet camera collection.
About 1.2 million of these rather proletarian cameras were produced into the mid-1990?s, at which point FED got out of the camera business. Being neither rare , good-looking, nor well-beloved, you can find them for rock-bottom prices, sometimes as low as $20 for a FED 5B new in the box. I got this used 5B from an eBay auction, paying $18 plus $12 shippng from Ukraine.
FED 5?s tend to get little respect, even from Soviet camera fans. With their sharp Industar-61 L/D lenses, many Communist camera fans joke that when you buy one of these cameras, you?re really buying a nice I-61 L/D lens with a big, bulky rear lens cap.
On the other hand, for less than what it costs to gas up the family minivan, you can buy a basic but serviceable Leica-derived camera with a tack-sharp lens. And as I found here, they perform very well!
I particularly am fond of this image. I have a (small) portfolio of signs and things over at my end of UF because I'm so fond of them. I really enjoy the composition here and the orange and grey scheme really lends itself to pictures.
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