Fed 1:3.5/50 mm, mount M39, Soviet collapsible lens, for Leica, Fed, Zorki cameras. Made in USSR.

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FED 1:3.5 F=50 mm lenses (hereinafter referred to as FED 50/3.5) were equipped with FED and FED-2 cameras - Soviet unlicensed copies of some Leica rangefinder cameras, which were produced in Kharkov at the FED machine-building plant, named in honor of the security officer Dzerzhinsky. The FED plant has a developed history associated with the name of the famous teacher Anton Semenovich Makarenko, who, on the basis of small communes for street children, organized the production of first hand-held drilling tools, and then film cameras (the first FED cameras). Legislative proceedings grew, and the labor commune was reorganized in 1939, belonging to the NKVD plant named after Dzerzhinsky (cameras of the FED NKVD series). The plant produced not only cameras, but also a whole line of lenses; most of the designs were interpreted by the latest designers of Willy Merthe, Robert Richter and Paul Rudolf.

FED, has an interesting and unusual design by today's standards. Firstly, the lens itself is not made of aluminum, as usual, but of brass, coated with nickel (front surfaces) and chrome (tube). In my opinion, nickel plating looks great - beautiful, but discreet.

Secondly, the lens copies the folding design of early Leitz Elmar: the FED lens unit is mounted in a movable tube that can move inside the focusing mechanism. In this case, in the working position, the tube extends and is fixed by turning it clockwise, and in the transport position, the tube is completely recessed into the focuser and camera shaft, making the lens very compact.

Subsequently, this design was used in later Industar lenses for rangefinder cameras.

The disadvantage of the design is the inconvenient aperture control, which is carried out by a thin ring at the front lens of the lens, equipped with a small finger rest. Very often this ring corrodes, becomes clogged and does not rotate well - such a lens needs to be disassembled and cleaned.

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